The global hotel chain Hyatt Hotels informed their customers this week that their credit card details may have been stolen as a direct result of a recent security breach. Chuck Floyd (Global President of Operations for Hyatt Hotels) revealed in a statement that the security breach took place between March 18, 2017 and July 2, 2017Read more
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This week, we saw a new vulnerability surface which affects users of all currently supported Microsoft Office applications. Security researchers at Qihoo 360 Core Security first detected the vulnerability being exploited ‘in-the-wild’ on 28th September, 2017. In a blog post on 10th October, 2017, a representative for Qihoo wrote “The attack only targeted limited customers. TheRead more
In this week’s Patch Tuesday update (dated 10th October, 2017), Microsoft have released patch for a vulnerability which affects multiple versions of the Windows operating system and could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code through specially-crafted DNS responses. The CVE-2017-11779 vulnerability was discovered by Nick Freeman (a security researcher at BishopFox), who identified theRead more
