Podcast: Black Hat USA and DEF CON 2018 Wrap
The Threatpost team debriefs on the top news and topics from last week’s Black Hat and DEF CON conferences. Read More
August 2018
Microsoft Flaw Allows Full Multi-Factor Authentication Bypass
A vulnerability in Microsoft’s Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) has been uncovered that would allow malicious actors to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA) safeguards. Many organizations Read More
Victims Lose Access to Thousands of Photos as Instagram Hack Spreads
An Instagram hack is spreading across the internet, with increasing numbers of victims finding their accounts hijacked and personal details altered — and account recovery Read More
GoDaddy Leaks ‘Map of the Internet’ via Amazon S3 Cloud Bucket Misconfig
GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar, has exposed high-level configuration information for tens of thousands of systems (and competitively sensitive pricing options for running Read More
Intel CPUs Afflicted with Fresh Speculative Execution Flaws
Three new speculative execution design flaws in Intel CPUs were disclosed today, this time impacting Intel’s Software Guard Extensions (SGX) technology, its OS and system Read More
Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Addresses Two Zero-Days in 60-Flaw Roundup
Microsoft has rolled out its August Patch Tuesday fixes, addressing 19 critical vulnerabilities, including fixes for two zero-day vulnerabilities that are under active attack. Overall, Read More
Election officials’ concerns turn to information warfare as hackers gather in Vegas
If state election boards were to be targeted in this way, where voter information or voting systems were hacked, and then a coordinated campaign to Read More
Claire McCaskill says attempted Russia hacking on her office ‘not successful’
Washington (CNN)Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill said Thursday that Russians unsuccessfully attempted to hack her Senate computer network. McCaskill’s acknowledgment was in response to a Read More
Lacking direction from White House, intelligence agencies scramble to protect midterm elections from hackers
(CNN)With the midterm election only a few months away, government officials working to counter election interference from Russia have been operating with no strategy from Read More
Cyber-attack! Would your firm handle it better than this?
Image copyrightTOM HUMBERSTONEImage caption The day starts badly for IT administrator Tony Lewis when he reads an email from a hacker What’s it like being Read More