Trilight, Author at Trilight Security

Check Point Software. Security Report 2020

Over 770 million email addresses and 21 million unique passwords were exposed in a popular hacking forum after hosted in the cloud service MEGA. It became the single largest collection of breached personal credentials in history, named Collection #1

Remote Working Exposing Businesses to Unforeseen Threats

The Infosecurity Magazine reported on unforeseen dangers of major shift to remote jobs.

The sudden shift to remote working this year as a result of COVID-19 has left businesses at far higher risk of cyber-attacks, largely due to their corporate infrastructure being exposed to attack vectors and threats that would not have been considered a year ago.

This is according to Bitdefender's The New Normal State of Cybersecurity report, which showed that businesses are particularly at risk of attacks exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities that are under a year old, with 36.37% of all unpatched vulnerabilities involving CVEs that were assigned in 2019 in the first half of 2020.

Read more on The Infosecurity Magazine

by Trilight

New Chrome Zero-Day Under Active Attacks: Update Your Browser

The Hacker News reported on actively exploited zero-day flaw in the Chrome browser.

Google has patched a second actively exploited zero-day flaw in the Chrome browser in two weeks, along with addressing nine other security vulnerabilities in its latest update.

The company released 86.0.4240.183 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, which it said will be rolling out over the coming days/weeks to all users...

Read more on The Hacker News

by Trilight