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Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) is a dictionary of common names (i.e., CVE Identifiers) for publicly known information security vulnerabilities. CVE's common identifiers make it easier to share data across separate network security databases and tools, and provide a baseline for evaluating the coverage of an organization's security ...
WannaCry ransomware attack. The WannaCry ransomware attack was a worldwide cyberattack in May 2017 by the WannaCry ransomware cryptoworm, which targeted computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system by encrypting data and demanding ransom payments in the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. [4] It was propagated by using EternalBlue, an exploit ...
ROCA vulnerability. The ROCA vulnerability is a cryptographic weakness that allows the private key of a key pair to be recovered from the public key in keys generated by devices with the vulnerability. "ROCA" is an acronym for "Return of Coppersmith's attack ". [1] The vulnerability has been given the identifier CVE - 2017-15361.
2017 Equifax data breach. Between May and July 2017, American credit bureau Equifax was breached. Private records of 147.9 million Americans along with 15.2 million British citizens and about 19,000 Canadian citizens were compromised in the breach, making it one of the largest cybercrimes related to identity theft.
BlueBorne (security vulnerability) BlueBorne is a type of security vulnerability with Bluetooth implementations in Android, iOS, Linux and Windows. [1][2][3] It affects many electronic devices such as laptops, smart cars, smartphones and wearable gadgets. One example is CVE - 2017-14315. The vulnerabilities were first reported by Armis, the ...
Two Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures IDs related to Spectre, CVE-2017-5753 (bounds check bypass, Spectre-V1, Spectre 1.0) and CVE-2017-5715 (branch target injection, Spectre-V2), have been issued. [7] JIT engines used for JavaScript were found to be vulnerable. A website can read data stored in the browser for another website, or the ...
The company claims to have discovered evidence of the cybercrime event on July 29, 2017. Residents in the United Kingdom (15.2 million) and Canada (about 19,000) were also impacted. The vulnerability which Chinese hackers leveraged was CVE-2017-5638; [23] the hackers managed to stay in Equifax's systems undetected for approximately 134 days. [24]
The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) is a free and open industry standard for assessing the severity of computer system security vulnerabilities. CVSS attempts to assign severity scores to vulnerabilities, allowing responders to prioritize responses and resources according to threat. Scores are calculated based on a formula that ...