Eduard Kovacs

Eduard Kovacs (@EduardKovacs) is a managing editor at SecurityWeek. He worked as a high school IT teacher for two years before starting a career in journalism as Softpedia’s security news reporter. Eduard holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial informatics and a master’s degree in computer techniques applied in electrical engineering.

Configuration Issue Exposes 30,000 MongoDB Instances: Researcher

Nearly 30,000 MongoDB instances are accessible over the Internet without any authorization enabled, an expert has warned.

July 21, 2015

Hacking Team Flash Player Exploit Used to Target Japanese Organizations

On the day Adobe patched two of the Flash Player zero-day vulnerabilities uncovered following the Hacking Team breach, FireEye researchers noticed that one of...

July 20, 2015

Attacks on Critical Infrastructure Organizations Resulted in Physical Damage: Survey

A survey commissioned by The Aspen Institute and Intel Security shows that critical infrastructure organizations often deal with cyberattacks, and many of them have...

July 20, 2015

Details of 4.5 Million Individuals Exposed in UCLA Health Breach

Malicious actors might have accessed the personal and medical information of as many as 4.5 million individuals after breaching the systems of UCLA Health.

July 20, 2015

Retailers Suspend Online Photo Centers Due to Possible Breach

Walmart Canada, Tesco, Costco, pharmacy chains CVS and Rite Aid, Sam’s Club, and possibly other retailers have decided to suspend online photo centers while...

July 20, 2015

Twitter-Based System to Provide Alerts on BGP Hijacks, Outages

Cloud-delivered security provider OpenDNS is preparing to launch a new alert system designed to warn users when Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) incidents are discovered...

July 17, 2015

Eaton Patches TCP/IP Stack Flaw Affecting Controls, Relays

Power management solutions provider Eaton has released software updates to address a vulnerability affecting the Cooper Power Series Form 6 recloser control and Idea/IdeaPLUS...

July 17, 2015

Google Play Checks Bypassed by Hacking Team Android Backdoor

An Android backdoor developed by the Italian surveillance software maker Hacking Team is capable of bypassing the Google Play screening process. The threat is...

July 17, 2015

Andromeda Botnet Used to Deliver New GamaPoS Malware

Researchers at Trend Micro have conducted an analysis of GamaPoS, a new point-of-sale (PoS) malware that has made its way onto the systems of...

July 17, 2015

Microsoft Patches Office Zero-Day Bug Used by APT Group

Microsoft on Tuesday patched several memory corruption vulnerabilities in Office, including one that had been exploited in the wild by a well known advanced...

July 16, 2015

Vulnerability Exposes Cisco Videoscape Devices to DoS Attacks

A security bug that can be exploited for denial-of-service (DoS) attacks has been found in Cisco Videoscape Distribution Suite for Internet Streaming (VDS-IS) and...

July 16, 2015