The typical modern organization, according to a joint F5-Ponemon global study, uses 765 web applications, of which, 34% are considered mission critical. Impact-wise, when apps are attacked, 81% of respondents to the F5 Labs 2018 Application Protection Report, rated loss of availability or denial of service as “the most painful”, followed by breach of confidential or sensitive information (77%); tampering with an ...
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Western Digital’s My Cloud NAS Devices Turn Out to Be Easily Hacked
Security researchers have discovered an authentication bypass vulnerability in Western Digital’s My Cloud NAS devices that potentially allows an unauthenticated attacker to gain admin-level control to the affected devices. Western Digital’s My Cloud (WD My Cloud) is one of the most popular network-attached storage (NAS) devices which is being used by businesses and individuals to host their files, as well ...
Read More »Ransomware Attack Takes Down Bristol Airport’s Flight Display Screens
Bristol Airport has blamed a ransomware attack for causing a blackout of flight information screens for two days over the weekend. The airport said that the attack started Friday morning, taking out several computers over the airport network, including its in-house display screens which provide details about the arrival and departure information of flights. The attack forced the airport officials ...
Read More »New Cold Boot Attack Unlocks Disk Encryption On Nearly All Modern PCs
Security researchers have revealed a new attack to steal passwords, encryption keys and other sensitive information stored on most modern computers, even those with full disk encryption. The attack is a new variation of a traditional Cold Boot Attack, which is around since 2008 and lets attackers steal information that briefly remains in the memory (RAM) after the computer is shut ...
Read More »List of TOP Firewall Appliances Company in India
List of TOP Firewall Appliances Company in India In general, a computer appliance is a computing device with a specific function and limited configuration ability, and a software appliance is a set of computer programs that might be combined with just enough operating system (JeOS) for it to run optimally on industry standard computer hardware or in a virtual machine. ...
Read More »British Airways Hacked – 380,000 Payment Cards Compromised
British Airways, who describes itself as “The World’s Favorite Airline,” has confirmed a data breach that exposed personal details and credit-card numbers of up to 380,000 customers and lasted for more than two weeks. So who exactly are victims? In a statement released by British Airways on Thursday, customers booking flights on its website (ba.com) and British Airways mobile app between late ...
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List of Top Firewall Companies in India The best enterprise level firewall Providers Companies in India So many firewalls and, of course, each one is ‘the best’ one, so how do you choose? Please see below Gartner report with features reviews from hundreds of network security pros who have actually used the products in real-world situations. Firewall Overview Firewalls are ...
Read More »Cisco Issues Security Patch Updates for 32 Flaws in its Products
Cisco today released thirty security patch advisory to address a total of 32 security vulnerabilities in its products, three of which are rated critical, including the recently disclosed Apache Struts remote code execution vulnerability that is being exploited in the wild. Out of the rest 29 vulnerabilities, fourteen are rated high and 15 medium in severity, addressing security flaws in Cisco Routers, Cisco Webex, ...
Read More »China’s web users fear losing tools to bypass ‘Great Firewall’
Beijing: Enterprising internet users in China fear the tools they use to tunnel through the country’s “Great Firewall” may soon disappear, as Beijing tightens its grip on the web. Tens of millions of people are estimated to use Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to bypass Chinese internet restrictions — getting access to blocked websites such as Facebook and Twitter. Beijing has for years turned a blind eye to ...
Read More »Google Secretly Tracks What You Buy Offline Using Mastercard Data
Over a week after Google admitted the company tracks users’ location even after they disable location history, it has now been revealed that the tech giant has signed a secret deal with Mastercard that allows it to track what users buy offline. Google has paid Mastercard millions of dollars in exchange to access this information. Neither Google nor Mastercard has publicly announced ...
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