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Command Injection: A Deadly Needle in the Haystack

15

Jul

2016

Looking across the threat landscape at cyber-criminals’ go-to attack vectors, we see SQL injection high on the list. But there’s another injection method that also poses a serious threat: command injection. In late September 2014, a more than 20-year-old vulnerability in the GNU Bash shell, which was widely used on Linux, Solaris and OS X […]

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Why a power grid attack is a nightmare scenario

31

May

2016

The threat of an attack on the nation’s power grid is all too real for the network security professionals who labor every day to keep the country safe. While cyber-security experts and industry executives describe such warnings as alarmist, intelligence officials say people underestimate how destructive a power outage can be.

Category Cyber warfare Written by Thehill 0 Comments

Wendy’s Comes Clean On Data Breach

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May

2016

Fast-food chain Wendy’s disclosed it was a victim of a point-of-sale system attack that installed malware on PoS computers affecting 300 franchise restaurants. The disclosure was part the company’s first quarter 2016 SEC filings on Wednesday and is the most complete account to date of a 2015 data breach. “In January, we began to investigate […]

Category Data loss Malware Written by Threatpost 0 Comments

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