Tara Seals, Author at CW Enterprises

Critical Cisco Contact Center Bug Threatens Customer-Service Havoc

14th January 2022Tara Seals

Attackers could access and modify agent resources, telephone queues and other customer-service systems – and access personal information on companies’ customers. Source: [...]

Microsoft Faces Wormable, Critical RCE Bug & 6 Zero-Days

11th January 2022Tara Seals

The large January 2022 Patch Tuesday update covers nine critical CVEs, including a self-propagator with a 9.8 CVSS score. Source: Threat Post [...]

URL Parsing Bugs Allow DoS, RCE, Spoofing & More

10th January 2022Tara Seals

Dangerous security bugs stemming from widespread inconsistencies among 16 popular third-party URL-parsing libraries could affect a wide swath of web applications. Source: [...]

Apple iPhone Malware Tactic Causes Fake Shutdowns to Enable Spying

6th January 2022Tara Seals

The ‘NoReboot’ technique is the ultimate in persistence for iPhone malware, preventing reboots and enabling remote attackers to do anything on the device [...]

1.1M Compromised Accounts Found at 17 Major Companies

5th January 2022Tara Seals

The accounts fell victim to credential-stuffing attacks, according to the New York State AG. Source: Threat Post – Web Security – 1.1M [...]

Uber Bug, Ignored for Years, Casts Doubt on Official Uber Emails

5th January 2022Tara Seals

A simple-to-exploit bug that allows bad actors to send emails from Uber’s official system — skating past email security — went unaddressed despite [...]

Data Skimmer Hits 100+ Sotheby’s Real-Estate Websites

4th January 2022Tara Seals

The campaign was an opportunistic supply-chain attack abusing a weaponized cloud video player. Source: Threat Post – Web Security – Data Skimmer [...]

McMenamins Data Breach Affects 12 Years of Employee Info

4th January 2022Tara Seals

The Pacific Northwest hospitality stalwart is also still operationally crippled by a Dec. 12 ransomware attack. Source: Threat Post – Web Security [...]