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FOIA portal upgrade error exposes SSNs, PII
Posted by SGCS admin, 04-09-2018A design error during an upgrade on a Freedom of Information Act request site exposed personal information, including Social Security numbers, birth dates and immigrant identification numbers. After ...
Critical Vulnerability Patched in PHP Package Repository
Posted by SGCS admin, 03-09-2018A critical remote code execution vulnerability was recently addressed in packagist.org, a large PHP package repository, a security researcher reveals. An open source project, Packagist is the default...
CrowdStrike verifies portions of report linking APT10 activity to Chinese government actors
Posted by SGCS admin, 03-09-2018Researchers with CrowdStrike yesterday partially confirmed reports from the mysterious APT-hunting group Intrusion Truth, verifying several findings that allegedly draw connections between the threat ...
The Cybersecurity Tool Kit They Call Smart Keeper
Posted by SGCS admin, 02-09-2018The network security protection devices offered by The Connectivity Center take a systems approach, working together to provide enhanced defense against purposeful intrusions and unintentional network...
MagentoCore Card Skimmer Found on Mass Numbers of E-Commerce Sites
Posted by SGCS admin, 02-09-2018The Magecart group is likely behind the most prolific card-stealing operation seen in the wild to date. A whopping 7,339 (and counting) individual e-commerce sites have been infested with the Magento...
Bucking the Norm, Mozilla to Block Tracking Cookies in Firefox
Posted by SGCS admin, 02-09-2018Unlike its browser competitors, Firefox will soon start blocking tracking cookies by default in the name of consumer privacy. Web tracking has long been in the cross-hairs of privacy advocates, who s...