• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jul-03-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Cisco leaves key to all its Unified CDM systems under doormat

Cisco Systems recently realized that its Unified Communications Domain Manager (Unified CDM) software contains a default privileged account with a static password that cannot be changed, exposing the platform to hacking by remote attackers.The Cisco Unified CDM is part of […]

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• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jul-03-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Plex hacker demands Bitcoin ransom for return of data

Video streaming service Plex has reset user passwords after it was breached by a hacker who threatened to release stolen data unless he’s paid a ransom.The company found out on Wednesday that a server hosting its forum and blog had […]

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• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jul-03-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Plex hacker demands Bitcoin ransom for return of data

Video streaming service Plex has reset user passwords after it was breached by a hacker who threatened to release stolen data unless he’s paid a ransom.The company found out on Wednesday that a server hosting its forum and blog had […]

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• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jul-02-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Attackers abuse legacy routing protocol to amplify DDoS attacks

Servers could be haunted by a ghost from the 1980s, as hackers have started abusing an obsolete routing protocol to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks.DDoS attacks observed in May by the research team at Akamai abused home and small busine... Read More