NY Fed Reveals Implications of Cyberattack on US …

A “pre-mortem analysis” sheds light on the potential destruction of a cyberattack against major US banks. A cyberattack compromising the integrity of US financial systems could lead to an “unprecedented” reconciliation and recuperation process, bank analysts predict in new research published this week from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. As part of a
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The Discovery and Implications of ‘MDB Leaker’

The “MDB Leaker” vulnerability in the Microsoft Access Database could lead to a memory leak if left unpatched. Researchers today disclosed the details behind their discovery of CVE-2019-1463, a flaw inside the Microsoft Access database application that could lead to a memory leak if left unpatched. The “MDB Leaker” vulnerability could potentially affect more than
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The Implications of Last Week's Exposure of 1.2B Records

Large sums of organized data, whether public or private, are worth their weight in gold to cybercriminals. Late last week the security industry learned that a trove of public data had been exposed in an unsecured server, compromising 4 terabytes of information, or about 1.2 billion records. The leak was discovered by security researcher Vinny
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