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01 Apr Fort Friday Security Clips—MongoDB, Crypto-ransomware & R0b1N H00d foolery

Verizon recently reported that an attacker had exploited a security vulnerability on its enterprise client portal and stole contact information of a number of its customers. Several other sources put the number of stolen records at over 1.5 Million in number. The security vulnerability discovered on the client enterprise portal was reported to Verizon on December 22 last year by security...

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breach

28 Mar Another breach — If It Can Happen to Verizon, It Can Happen To Anyone

Every year I anticipate the release of Verizon’s annual Data Breach Investigations Report. I’ve read it religiously for years. As a company that specializes in data breach security and helps countless organizations respond to and investigate security breaches, it’s ironic to say the least that Verizon just experienced a massive data breach of their own. Verizon recently reported that an attacker...

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25 Mar Fort Friday Security Clips—Verizon hacked, OS X zero-day

Data for 1.5 million Verizon Enterprise customers is for sale in an underground cybercrime forum. Security journalist, Brian Krebs of KrebsonSecurity reports that the hacker priced the entire package at $100,000 and was also offering the data in chunks of 100,000 records for $10,000 apiece. Interested buyers were offered an additional perk to purchase information about the security vulnerabilities found in Verizon’s enterprise client portal....

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