In 1987, Mr. Fox, then a young programmer, wrote Bash, short for Bourne-Again Shell, a free piece of software that is now built into more than 70 percent of the machines that connect to the Internet. That includes servers, computers, routers, some mobile phones and even everyday items like refrigerators and cameras....
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Flooring retailer Lumber Liquidators said Tuesday that it is recovering from a computer virus that disabled some of its corporate and store systems starting last Wednesday. The Toano-based company, which has 416 stores in North America, said that it is still investigating what happened, but “to date, the company has not discovered anything that leads it to believe any sensitive and confidential consumer or employee data was compromised.” “That data is further protected by the f...
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The number of recorded vulnerability disclosures continues to rise, with 10,644 published throughout the first half of 2018 by Risk Based Security’s VulnDB team. That total is reportedly 3,279 more vulnerabilities than those listed on CVE/NVD, according to the 2018 Mid-Year VulnDB QuickView Report. The numbers reflect only a 1% increase over the same period last year. Of those discovered in the first six months of 2018, 73% of vulnerabilities have a documented solution, while only 32.1% ha...
INFOSECURITY MAGAZINE
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Startup Sonrai Security officially launched on Jan. 15, introducing its Cloud Data Control Service in an effort to improve security for enterprise data assets stored across multiple clouds. The Sonrai Cloud Data Control Service provides multiple features to help organizations improve security, including discovery of data assets as well as classification capabilities. The Sonrai platform also helps organizations meet compliance mandates by identifying areas of risk and potential compliance violat...
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The majority of vulnerabilities in 2018 were associated with network vulnerabilities, while less than 20% were associated with web applications and APIs, according to the fourth annual Vulnerability Stats Report from Edgescan. When it comes to breaches, though, web application security remains the area of greatest risk. “The percentage of high and critical risks combined, compared to all discovered risks is still high at 19.2% for public internet-facing (external) applications and 24.9% fo...
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At Derbycon, a Tenable security researcher disclosed a new attack vector for a previously disclosed vulnerability in a widely deployed router platform. Routers represent an attractive target for hackers to build botnets and spread malware, especially when the routers have known, unpatched remote code execution vulnerabilities. In April, the CVE-2018-14847 vulnerability was first reported in MikroTik routers that have millions of users worldwide. That initial report indicated the scope of the vul...
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