Jerome Segura reports: As the debate about online ads is raging thanks to Apple’s introduction of ad blockers in its App Store, malvertising keeps on striking high profile sites. The latest victim is popular real estate website realtor.com, ranked third in its category with an estimated 28 million monthly visits according to SimilarWeb. People browsing the site in the last…
Category: Business Sector
FireEye: Forbes.com served malicious ads to visitors
Steve Ragan reports: In a blog post, researchers from FireEye have outlined a malvertising campaign that was running on Forbes.com earlier this month, which led visitors to landing pages ran by the Neutrino and Angler exploit kits. The attacks were triggered on a handful of articles, but the logs released by FireEye show that none…
More details emerge on Systema Software data leak (update1)
On September 9, Chris Vickery (previously referred to as “TE” in earlier coverage) notified the KDHE that what appeared to be the entire Kansas State Self Insurance Fund SIMS database was exposed online, as were databases from other agencies and organizations. KDHE immediately notified Systema Software, who promptly secured the leaking files. Vickery also contacted DataBreaches.net, who reported on the leak and the…
AU: Townsville adult store blackmailed by hackers
Chris McMahon reports: Queensland’s oldest sex shop has been held to ransom by hackers who infected the store’s computers, locking down all its files with a highly sophisticated malware. Hackers hit Charters Towers Rd adult shop Sweethearts early on Friday morning through an email that infected the store’s servers, holding their data to ransom until…
Inside Target Corp., Days After 2013 Breach
Brian Krebs reports: In December 2013, just days after a data breach exposed 40 million customer debit and credit card accounts, Target Corp. hired security experts at Verizon to probe its networks for weaknesses. The results of that confidential investigation — until now never publicly revealed — confirm what pundits have long suspected: Once inside Target’s network, there was nothing stop…
Important security notice regarding signing key and distribution of Red Hat Ceph Storage on Ubuntu and CentOS
Posted Red Hat on September 17: Last week, Red Hat investigated an intrusion on the sites of both the Ceph community project (ceph.com) and Inktank (download.inktank.com), which were hosted on a computer system outside of Red Hat infrastructure. download.inktank.com provided releases of the Red Hat Ceph product for Ubuntu and CentOS operating systems. Those product versions…