Day: December 15, 2020

GoDaddy acquires point of sale provider Poynt

Similar to Square, Poynt offers a suite of products tailored to small businesses, including POS, payments processing, and invoicing. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Subway Sandwich Loyalty-Card Users Suffer Ham-Handed Phishing Scam

Subway loyalty program members in U.K. and Ireland have been sent scam emails to trick them into downloading malware. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Easy WP SMTP Security Bug Can Reveal Admin Credentials

A poorly configured file opens users up to site takeover. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Gitpaste-12 Worm Widens Set of Exploits in New Attacks

The worm returned in recent attacks against web applications, IP cameras and routers. …read more Source:: Threatpost


AWS Introduces New Chaos Engineering as a Service Offering

When large companies like Netflix or Amazon want to test the resilience of their systems, they use chaos engineering tools designed to help them simulate worst-case scenarios and find potential issues before they even happen. Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels introduced the company’s Chaos Engineering as a Service offering called AWS Fault…


Firefox Patches Critical Mystery Bug, Also Impacting Google Chrome

Mozilla Foundation releases Firefox 84 browser, fixing several flaws and delivering performance gains and Apple processor support. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Hackers at Center of Sprawling Spy Campaign Turned SolarWinds’ Dominance Against It

An anonymous reader shares a report: On an earnings call two months ago, SolarWinds Chief Executive Kevin Thompson touted how far the company had gone during his 11 years at the helm. There was not a database or an IT deployment model out there to which his Austin, Texas-based company did not provide some level…


Medical Imaging Leaks Highlight Unhealthy Security Practices

More than 45 million unique images, such as X-rays and MRI scans, are accessible to anyone on the Internet, security firm says. …read more Source:: DarkReading


Microsoft and industry partners seize key domain used in SolarWinds hack

By seizing the domain, Microsoft and its partners hope to identify all victims, but are also preventing attackers from escalating intrusions in currently infected networks. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Hennessey Venom F5: America’s rocket ship supercar promises to crack 300-plus mph – Roadshow

With a twin-turbo 6.6-liter V8 engine and 1,817 horsepower, Hennessey Performance Engineering is out to break some records. …read more Source:: CNet