On Monday, The Financial Times reported that attackers have been exploiting a buffer overflow vulnerability in the popular messaging service WhatsApp. The vulnerability has been fixed, and updates were released on Friday. WhatsApp, owned by Facebook, is urging both iPhone and Android users to update the app as soon as possible. Veracode’s State of Software […]
Reading Time: ~ 2 min. Quest Diagnostics Customers Affected by Third-Party Breach The medical testing organization Quest Diagnostics has fallen victim to a third-party data breach that could affect nearly 12 million of their patients. AMCA, a collections agency that works with Quest Diagnostics, noticed unauthorized access to their systems over an eight-month period from […]
The State of Software Security Volume 9 (SOSS Vol. 9) found that the healthcare industry, with its stringent regulations, received relatively high marks in many of the standard AppSec metrics. According to Veracode scan data, healthcare organizations ranked highest of all industries on OWASP pass rate on latest scan, coming in with a rate just […]
Medical testing giant LabCorp. said today personal and financial data on some 7.7 million consumers were exposed by a breach at a third-party billing collections firm. That third party — the American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) — also recently notified competing firm Quest Diagnostics that an intrusion in its payments Web site exposed personal, financial and […]