Tens of thousands of websites running WordPress are thought to have been put at risk from a vulnerability that hackers have been actively exploiting to inject pornographic spam messages.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Neowin |
Tumblr claimed that a data breach affected 'a set' of users, turns out to be over 60m
Neowin Tumblr was the subject of a data breach back in 2013, before being acquired by Yahoo. The company only discovered the breach on May 12. At the time, the microblogging service claimed that only "a set" of users were affected; however, an analysis of the … Hackers Stole 65 Million Passwords From Tumblr, New Analysis Reveals Pwned: 65 million Tumblr accounts, 40 million from Fling, 360 million from MySpace Tumblr hack: Report says 65 million emails, passwords stolen |
Fortune |
LinkedIn Data Breach From 2012 Comes Back to Haunt Users
ABC News LinkedIn Data Breach From 2012 Comes Back to Haunt Users. By Alyssa Newcomb. Close. Follow on Twitter · More from Alyssa. May 18, 2016, 3:28 PM ET. 0 Shares. Email. Star. PHOTO: The LinkedIn Corp. logo is displayed on the screens of an Apple Inc … LinkedIn Lost 167 Million Account Credentials in Data Breach LinkedIn Says Hackers Are Trying to Sell Fruits of Huge 2012 Data Breach LinkedIn resetting passwords after 2012 data breach |
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Flash zero day phished phoolish Microsoft Office users
The Register FireEye has detailed an attack on a recent zero-day vulnerability Adobe patched last week. The flaw (CVE-2916-4117) affects the previous latest version of Adobe Flash and copped a rushed patch after FireEye reported attacks in the wild. Genwei Jiang, a … Emergency Patch Imminent to Repair Adobe Flash Zero-Day Used in Live Attacks Flash Player update fixes zero-day vulnerability and 24 other critical flaws |