Recently, Valve Software, a global powerhouse in video game development and distribution experienced a weird security incident on its Steam platform over the holidays. Valve initially developed Steam back into 2002, and now it’s one of the largest platforms of
Adobe FMS has been a good friend to the CDN Community for many years. Back in the day, being able to offer RTMP streaming was a good thing, and CDNs charged a per GB premium for it. Hard to believe,
Move over Home Depot and Chase, Sony has just joined the club, and it isn’t pretty. Just when we thought it couldn’t get any worse than Home Depot, it does, and it’s so bad that employees are tending to their
On August 28, 2014, AlienVault published a report in which they detailed the structural specifics of an evolution in watering hole attacks. The main difference detected was a lack of malware, now replaced by a malicious JavaScript file executed from
Fresh off the heels of their recent Zero-Day attack, Microsoft is now facing yet another security breach, this time in the form of phishing. In a detailed report published by Trend Micro, the security software company deep dives into the
On October 21, 2014, Microsoft’s Security Advisory team alerted its customers to a recent zero-day attack, which has left all releases of Windows, outside of the 2003 server, vulnerable to remote code execution that hinges on user interaction. Execution is
Vietnamese news websites were down due to a power outage occurring at the data center of the host company, Vietnam Communications Corporation (VCCorp). Online newspapers such as giadinh.net.vn, nld.com.vn, and dantri.com.vn were inaccessible, as well as newswires soha.vn, cafeF.vn, vccorp.vn,
On Monday MBIA Inc., a public holding company out of Purchase, NY, had a breach in security that made client account information, balances, and other sensitive customer data to the public. MBIA Inc. is the largest bond insurer in the
The first half of 2014 turned out to be a banner year for security breaches. Just about every industry has been impacted by a cyber security breach, with the most recent being Community Health Systems (CHS), UPS, Goodwill, Albertson’s, SuperValu,
US Investigations Services (USIS), which is part of the family of Kroll and HireRight, and collectively owned by Altegrity, Inc., suffered a major security breach by a state sponsored threat actor. USIS is the largest commercial organization providing background checks
Hackers, attackers and cyber criminals have been busy breaching companies of all shapes and sizes. StubHub and Goodwill are two of the latest victims. It has just come to light that StubHub, an eBay company, was breached in March 2013.
Dailymotion, an Alexa 90 ranked video sharing website, recently experienced a security breach. Attackers injected malicious code into the Dailymotion website consisting of an iframe, that directed them to the Sweet Orange Exploit Kit. From there, the exploit kit would
