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City of York Council Pulls One Planet York App Due To Data Breach

City of York Council has thanked a security researcher for discovering a flaw in a council app which allowed personal data to

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Quora Data Breach Leaks Info On Over 100 Million Users

Quora the Q&A website has had a data breach affecting over 100 million registered users.  The names and email addresses

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Elasticsearch Data Breach Exposes 57 Million Records

A huge 73 GB data breach was discovered during a regular security audit of publicly available servers with the Shodan

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sLoad PowerShell Trojan

First observed in January 2017, sLoad is aPowerShell-based downloader trojan targeting organisations throughout WesternEurope and North America. Believed to have

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Boaxxe Trojan

First observed in 2011, Boaxxe (also known as Miuref) is an information stealing trojan and backdoor. First seen in 2011,

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Marriott Data Breach Affecting Up To 500 Million Hotel Guests

Marriott has taken measures to investigate and address a data security incident involving the Starwood guest reservation database.  Marriott has

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New Attacks Targeting Drupal Websites

A new attack methodology has been identified which involves the Dirty COW and Drupalgeddon 2 vulnerabilities present in unpatched Drupal

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New HookAds Malvertising Campaign

A new malvertising campaign known as HookAds has been observed using the Fallout exploit kit to install several other well-known

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Outlaw IRC Botnet

Two new variants of the Outlaw hacking group’s botnet have been observed. The Outlaw botnet targets organisations worldwide and is

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Cannon Downloader Trojan

Cannon is a newly observed dropper trojan, believed to have been created by the ATP28 advanced persistent threat group. As with

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