El Diario del CISO (The CISO Journal) Edición 10 2018 | Page 5

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Mirai Variant Botnet Takes Aim at Financials
www.darkreading.com
In January, a botnet based on Mirai was used to attack at least three European financial institutions.
Intel Halts Spectre Patching for Some Chips
www.infosecurity-magazine.com
The long-running Spectre patching cycle took another turn this week after Intel revealed it won’t be updating all chip models
affected by the critical vulnerability after all.
Critical vulnerability opens Cisco switches to remote attack
www.helpnetsecurity.com
A critical vulnerability affecting many of Cisco’s networking devices could be exploited by unauthenticated, remote attackers to
take over vulnerable devices or trigger a reload and crash.
Facebook's Sandberg Says Other Cases of Data Misuse Possible
www.securityweek.com
Facebook was aware more than two years ago of Cambridge Analytica's harvesting of the personal profiles of up to 87 million
users and cannot rule out other cases of abuse of user data, chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg said
Panera Bread blew off breach report, leaked 37M customer records
www.csoonline.com
As many as 37 million customer records were exposed thanks to a security vulnerability that Panera Bread chose to ignore for
eight months. Panera Bread’s website leaked millions of customer records in plain text for at least eight months, which is how
long the company blew off the issues reported
Thousands of Sears, Delta customers affected by data ...
www.techrepublic.com
Building a slide deck, pitch, or presentation? Here are the big takeaways: Sears claimed "less than 100,000" of its customers were
affected by the hack.