Atlanta-based SunTrust Bank is the 12th largest bank in the US. They have a major problem, and so do roughly a million and a half of its customers. According to CEO William Rogers, an unidentified employee of the firm printed a vast amount of private customer information, including their names, addresses, phone numbers and account balance information. Rogers stressed that social security numbers, account numbers, driver's license numbers, user IDs, and passwords were not exposed. In a … Read more
Archives for May 2018
Apple Recall Affects Some Macbook Pro Batteries
If you recently bought a 13-inch MacBook Pro (without a Touch Bar), you'll want to head to Apple's website. The company didn't make a big announcement, but they've quietly introduced a battery replacement program that impacted what the company described as a "limited number" of laptops. The company didn't provide many details, but apparently, on certain machines an unknown component failure can cause the built-in battery to swell. There's no danger of an explosion and no fire hazard … Read more
Researchers Find Major Vulnerabilities In Banking Apps
Do you do your banking online? If so, there's bad news in the form of a report recently released by the security firm "Positive Technologies." The company tested a variety of websites using a proprietary tool they developed in-house, which scans websites for security flaws. While flaws were found across a wide range of industries, literally every banking site Positive Technologies tested was found to have serious security flaws. The particulars varied from one bank to the next, but the … Read more
Major Server Ring Distributing Malware Taken Down
Score one for the good guys. A researcher from BrilliantIT was recently able to figure out how infected computers would connect to EITest's command and control server, and using that information, was able to bring down their entire network. If you haven't heard of EITest before, the true significance of that statement might not be registering. EITest first appeared in 2011. In its original incarnation, it was little more than an annoyance. It was a collection of compromised servers used … Read more
