Cybersecurity is a great threat facing both large and small organizations worldwide. The security threat has prompted companies to take preventive measures to ensure safety from such unwarranted attacks that could spell disaster for their existence and survival. Last week, we discussed, through our comprehensive articles, the dangers these security threats pose to organizations, large and small. Here is a brief recap of what we did last week.

Latest Firefox Releases of Mozilla Fix Twenty-two Flaws

The Foundation of Mozilla released Firefox version 66 and 60.6 for Firefox Extended Support Release, in the method fixing twenty-two flaws between them, five of them serious. Four of the five most critical vulnerabilities were discovered in both the standard and Extended Support Release versions of the web browser.

Hundreds of Millions of Facebook Users’ Passwords Saved in Plain Text

Facebook acknowledged to have saved hundreds of millions of Facebook users’ passwords in plain text. This includes the users of Facebook Lite passwords, Facebook passwords, and Instagram passwords.

PuTTY Announces Essential Software Update to Fix Critical Bugs

The well-known user program PuTTY has announced the updated version of its software that comprises security fixes for eight high-severity security flaws. PuTTY is one of the most famous and widely utilized open-source user-side programs that allows users to distantly access systems over Telnet, SSH, and Rlogin network protocols.

Newer Mirai Choice Aims Enterprise IoT Devices

A newer identified variant of the shocking Mirai botnet is aiming devices particularly meant for businesses, possibly communicating a direction toward enterprise. A Linux based malware, Mirai is targeting Internet of Things devices in an effort to capture them into botnets confident of announcing Distributed Denial of Service attacks the best known for the big attacks on Dyn and OVH in late 2016.

Fourth Enormous Credential Reveal in a Month Strikes DreamMarket

Gnosticplayers has announced about twenty-six million data from what he stated are six new firms’ breaches. The attacker behind more than eight hundred and forty million records of anonymous account seeming for sale on the Dark Web previous month in February is back with 26.42 some more data from six firms. The opponent, who goes by the deal Gnosticplayers, is acquiring merely 1.2431 in Bitcoin (approx. $4,940), according to ZDnet, which pointed the data on DreamMarket for sale over the weekend.

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