Weekly Cyber Security News 13/10/2017

A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. As a matter of course, checking access to critical information should be a matter of course, however after a number of high profile reports of S3 breaches, wouldn’t you just go and check to make sure about your own situation? Appears Accenture didn’t….

• Accenture Exposed Data via Unprotected Cloud Storage Bucket

• Accenture left a huge trove of highly sensitive data on exposed servers Zack Whittaker reports

IoT failure, admittedly on old technology, when the world was a different place. But, still a lot of these cars around:

• Bad rolling code in keyfob for many Subaru cars

Another case of being careful around wifi hotspots:

• Hackers Can Execute Code on Windows via DNS Responses

Other news to look at:

• Disqus Discloses 2012 Breach Impacting 17 Million Users

• Disqus reveals it suffered a security breach in 2012 Richard Lawler reports

• Equifax: 12.5 Million UK Client Records Exposed in Breach

• Nearly 700,000 UK Nationals Affected by Equifax Breach

• Adobe Releases No ‘Patch Tuesday’ Security Updates

• Deloitte hack hit server containing emails from across US government Nick Hopkins reports

• Forrester Announces Cybersecurity Incident Involving Forrester.com

• How Systematic Lying Can Improve Your Security No, you don’t have to tell websites your mother’s actual maiden name.

• Phishing Emails that Invoke Fear, Urgency, Get the Most Clicks

• Research Reports Stolen in Forrester Website Hack

• SDL Development Library Allows Code Execution via GIMP Files

• Spam Rate Hit 55% in September: Symantec

• U.S. Banking Regulator Hit by 54 Breaches in 2015, 2016

• FIN7 Hackers Change Attack Techniques

• Stealthy Attack Could Hit 50 Percent of Large Office 365 Customers

• Varied Patch Process by Microsoft Exposes Windows Users

• macOS High Sierra Update Patches Keychain Access Flaw

• Microsoft Patches Office Zero-Day Used to Deliver Malware

• New 4G, 5G Network Flaw ‘Worrisome’