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Data Security 05-27-2016

This Month in SSL: May 2016

Mark Santamaria

Here is our latest news roundup of articles about network and SSL security. ( to see the whole series.)

SSL & Encryption

  • Microsoft announced they will within the next four months.
  • OpenSSL released , which fixed one high-severity flaw and four low-severity flaws.
  • Google takes another step towards pushing aÌýHTTPS-everywhere web by .

Data Breaches

  • experienced a data breach that exposed sensitive information for 794,000 of their customers.
  • announced that the Equifax W-2Express breach may have exposed former and current employees’ information, including SSN and birth dates.
  • In the past few months seven former employees of the left with thumb drives containing personal banking information for 160,000 U.S. residents.
  • An in the United Arabs Emirates leaked tens of thousands of records online.
  • exposed 272 million usernames and passwords in a data breach.
  • A flaw in the a website that alerts companies when their users’ email passwords and usernames have been compromised caused a breach, exposing 866 million accounts.

Vulnerabilities

  • for 51 vulnerabilities affecting some of their products, including Windows, IE, Microsoft Edge, and Office.
  • A in several Symantec antivirus programs allow a hacker the ability to compromise computers.
  • vulnerability in the image processing software.
  • that allowed users to log in as admins.

Malware

  • Security researchers found that two banks recently targeted in malware attacks .
  • A click-fraud botnet which can reconfigure browser settings worldwide.
  • US House of Representatives warned about the and ransomware attacks.
  • ,Ìýa toy company, conductedÌýmaintenance after researchers found the site was serving up ransomware.

Cybercrime

  • 2015 W-2 records compromising thousands of taxpayers’ records.
  • payroll portal and steal 64,000 employee salary data.
  • Hacktivist group across the globe with DDoS attacks.
  • Attackers posing as a company executive successfully to transfer $495,000 to a bank in China.
  • discovered a scamming site impersonating them and other cybersecurity companies. The scammers copied images and content to trick users into paying them for services.

IoT

  • A system allows an attacker the ability to make keys to the front door.
  • takes their farm equipment into the world of IoT.

Research & Studies

  • A new revealed that almost 90% of healthcare organizations have suffered a data breach.
  • by 14% from the previous quarter, according to a study by Kaspersky Labs.
  • In their Q1 Spam and phishing report, observed over 22 million email antivirus detections, which is four times higher than last year.
  • DoS attacks could cause organizations to lose over $100,000 per hour of downtime, says a recent .
  • predicts online transaction fraud will have cost organizations $25.6 billion by 2020.
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