It was reported on April 1st – appropriate that it was April Fool’s Day – by a number of media outlets that Hudson’s Bay Company, the Canada-based parent company of iconic luxury retailer Saks Fifth Avenue, as well as Lord & Taylor and Saks Off 5th, had been hacked. Reportedly, over 5 million credit and debit card numbers of customers of the retailers had been stolen, and supposedly were for sale on the Dark Web.
Tags: cyber security, phishing attack, browser isolation, hacked, hackers, isolation technology
Over 350,000 of the world’s top 1 million web sites may be running vulnerable software -- which the recent WannaCry cyber attack has shown can spell considerable risk of hacker exploitation. According to the Menlo Security State of The Web report, software on some web sites dates back to over a decade ago, as far back as the year 2000. The cyber security research reveals that nearly half (46%) of the Internet’s top 1 million web sites, as ranked by Alexa, are risky, and that 1 in 5 domains run vulnerable software.
Tags: wannacry, cyber attacks, malware vulnerabilities, ransomware, credential theft, hackers, financial security firms, banks, credit unions, isolation, web threats, email threats, spear-phishing, phishing prevention
