Category: News

Lexmark Printers Open to Arbitrary Code-Execution Zero-Day

“No remedy available as of June 21, 2021,” according to the researcher who discovered the easy-to-exploit, no-user-action-required bug.

Six Flags to Pay $36M Over Collection of Fingerprints

Illinois Supreme Court rules in favor of class action against company’s practice of scanning people’s fingers when they enter amusement parks.

Wegmans Exposes Customer Data in Misconfigured Databases

Cleanup in aisle “Oops”: The supermarket chain said that it misconfigured two cloud databases, exposing customer data to public scrutiny.

Bugs in NVIDIA’s Jetson Chipset Opens Door to DoS Attacks, Data Theft

Chipmaker patches nine high-severity bugs in its Jetson SoC framework tied to the way it handles low-level cryptographic algorithms.

Embryology Data Breach Follows Fertility Clinic Ransomware Hit

Approximately 38,000 of RBA’s customers had their embryology data stolen by a ransomware gang.

Agent Tesla RAT Returns in COVID-19 Vax Phish

An unsophisticated campaign shows that the pandemic still has long legs when it comes to being social-engineering bait.

iPhone Wi-Fi Crushed by Weird Network

… until you reset network settings and stop connecting to a weirdly named network, that is. FUD is spreading. iOS Wi-Fi demolition is not.

What’s Making Your Company a Ransomware Sitting Duck

What’s the low-hanging fruit for ransomware attackers? What steps could help to fend them off, and what’s stopping organizations from implementing those steps?

Carnival Cruise Cyber-Torpedoed by Cyberattack

This is the fourth time in a bit over a year that Carnival’s admitted to breaches, with two of them being ransomware attacks.

Insider Versus Outsider: Navigating Top Data Loss Threats

Troy Gill, manager of security research at Zix, discusses the most common ways sensitive data is scooped up by nefarious sorts.