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China’s Cybersecurity Law Seeks Scrutiny Of Technology
Quick Hits  |  12/28/2016  | 
Country’s top internet regulator releases framework for stricter cyberspace laws, including review of local and foreign technology.
Year 2016 Sees Record Deployment Of HTTPS By Firefox, Chrome
Quick Hits  |  12/27/2016  | 
More than half of Web pages loaded by the browsers guarantee protection to visitors.
Financial Data Worth Millions Unwittingly Exposed In Ameriprise Accounts
Quick Hits  |  12/19/2016  | 
Leak of bank account and financial planning details emanated from a financial advisor's unsecured Internet-connected backup drive at home.
Ashley Madison To Pay $17.5 Million In Breach Settlement
Quick Hits  |  12/15/2016  | 
Ashley Madison was found guilty of lax data security and also corrupt practices including photo and profile misuse.
8 Most Hackable Holiday Gifts, 2016 Edition
Slideshows  |  12/14/2016  | 
You better watch out! Otherwise, you may be giving the gift of malware or unauthorized access to networks and devices.
Dailymotion Advises Password Change After Possible Data Breach
Quick Hits  |  12/7/2016  | 
Breach not yet confirmed, but LeakedSource says it has compromised IDs of over 87 million Dailymotion users, protected by bcrypt.
Hacker Of Celeb Emails Goes To Jail For Five Years
Quick Hits  |  12/7/2016  | 
Bahamian Alonzo Knowles was sentenced for illegal access of 130 celebrity email accounts and selling their personal information.
Dark Web Vendor Gets 50 Months Jail For ID Theft
Quick Hits  |  12/2/2016  | 
Minnesota resident Aaron Glende aka IcyEagle caught selling stolen bank details on AlphaBay market.


Valentine's Emails Laced with Gandcrab Ransomware
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark Reading,  2/14/2019
High Stress Levels Impacting CISOs Physically, Mentally
Jai Vijayan, Freelance writer,  2/14/2019
Mozilla, Internet Society and Others Pressure Retailers to Demand Secure IoT Products
Curtis Franklin Jr., Senior Editor at Dark Reading,  2/14/2019
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CVE-2019-8933
PUBLISHED: 2019-02-19
In DedeCMS 5.7SP2, attackers can upload a .php file to the uploads/ directory (without being blocked by the Web Application Firewall), and then execute this file, via this sequence of steps: visiting the management page, clicking on the template, clicking on Default Template Management, clicking on ...
CVE-2019-7629
PUBLISHED: 2019-02-18
Stack-based buffer overflow in the strip_vt102_codes function in TinTin++ 2.01.6 and WinTin++ 2.01.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by sending a long message to the client.
CVE-2019-8919
PUBLISHED: 2019-02-18
The seadroid (aka Seafile Android Client) application through 2.2.13 for Android always uses the same Initialization Vector (IV) with Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) Mode to encrypt private data, making it easier to conduct chosen-plaintext attacks or dictionary attacks.
CVE-2019-8917
PUBLISHED: 2019-02-18
SolarWinds Orion NPM before 12.4 suffers from a SYSTEM remote code execution vulnerability in the OrionModuleEngine service. This service establishes a NetTcpBinding endpoint that allows remote, unauthenticated clients to connect and call publicly exposed methods. The InvokeActionMethod method may b...
CVE-2019-8908
PUBLISHED: 2019-02-18
An issue was discovered in WTCMS 1.0. It allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code by going to the "Setting -> Mailbox configuration -> Registration email template" screen, and uploading an image file, as demonstrated by a .php filename and the "Content-Type: image/g...