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Most CISOs receive a rude awakening when they encounter their first major security issue in the cloud. If they identify a critical vulnerability that requires a patch, they may not have the authorization to tweak the cloud provider’s pre-packaged stack.

A new attack, FairWare Ransomware is targeting Linux users where the attackers hack a Linux server, delete the web folder, and then demand a ransom payment of two bitcoins (around $1,150) from the administrators to restore them. In this attack,

To have the official distribution of your Mac software hacked to include malware once may be regarded as a misfortune; to have it happen twice looks like carelessness. (With apologies to Oscar Wilde.) The first time it happened to popular

According to the breach notification service LeakedSource roughly 43 million Last.fm accounts were compromised in a 2012 incident. n June 2012, the online music service Last.fm was compromised by hackers, in response the company notified the incident to its users

Paypal users are being lured into clicking on a malicious link embedded in a tweet that appears to come from the financial transaction service, according to a report from Proofpoint. Messages are arriving from two different fraudulent social media customer

Linux server admins are reporting attacks resulting in the disappearance of the server’s web folder and websites being down indefinitely. Posts to the forums on the BleepingComputer website corroborate a number of such attacks, most likely intrusions powered by brute-force

Earlier in the week, Dropbox forced password resets after stumbling across user credentials online that it believes were stolen in a 2012 breach. Our security teams are always watching out for new threats to our users. As part of these