Tag Archive for: exposes

Latest WikiLeaks dump exposes CIA methods to mask malware

WikiLeaks may have dealt another blow to the CIA’s hacking operations by releasing files that allegedly show how the agency was masking its malware attacks.

On Friday, the site dumped the source code to the Marble Framework, a set of anti-forensic tools that WikiLeaks claims the CIA used last year.

The files do appear to show “obfuscation techniques” that can hide CIA-developed malicious coding from detection, said Jake Williams, a security researcher at Rendition InfoSec, who has been examining the files.

Every hacker, from the government-sponsored ones to amateurs, will use their own obfuscation techniques when developing malware, he said.

To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Network World Security

Wikileaks’ dump of CIA exploits exposes enterprises to new risks

Corporations concerned about the release of thousands of CIA documents detailing hacks against Apple iOS and Mac OSX, Google’s Android, Microsoft’s Windows, Linux and Solaris need to conduct a fresh round of risk assessment that takes the new revelations into account.

While the trove of leaked data – known as Vault 7 – doesn’t include code for actual exploits, it does describe the types of vulnerabilities they take advantage of, which can still be of value to both defenders and potential attackers, says John Pironti, president of IP Architects, a security risk consulting firm.

To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Network World Tim Greene

Critical Flaw in ESET Antivirus Exposes Mac Users to Remote Hacking

As detailed in the full disclosure, all a hacker needs to get root-level remote code execution on a Mac computer is to intercept the ESET antivirus package’s connection to its backend servers using a self-signed HTTPS certificate, put himself in as a man …
mac hacker – read more

Quest data breach exposes private health information of 34000 patients – Los Angeles Times


Los Angeles Times

Quest data breach exposes private health information of 34000 patients
Los Angeles Times
Quest Diagnostics Inc., a lab services company, is investigating an online data breach that exposed the test results and other personal information of 34,000 patients nationwide. The New Jersey-based company announced Monday that an "unauthorized third …
Quest Diagnostics Breach Exposes Health Data of 34000 CustomersFortune
Quest Diagnostics Reports Data BreachWall Street Journal
Quest Diagnostics data breach leaves 34000 vulnerableFierceBiotech
WGRZ.com –KSHB –Quest Diagnostics Newsroom –Quest Diagnostics | Press Release
all 118 news articles »

“data breach” – Google News