Eurostar Urges Customers to Reset Passwords Following Security Loop Issue
In what seems to be a potential data breach, Eurostar customers often encounter a password reset prompt that locks their accounts.
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In what seems to be a potential data breach, Eurostar customers often encounter a password reset prompt that locks their accounts.
"Unlike previous notable F5 exploits, not all of these can be easily hand-waved away by restricting external access to the administrative interfaces known as the 'control plane,'" says Justin Rhinehart, senior analyst at Bishop Fox. Two critical exploits disclosed this week affect the so-called data plane, which is the part responsible for handing any and all traffic going through the BIG-IP platform, he says. The only way to mitigate these exploits is by patching. In a worst-case scenario, Rhinehart says, an attacker can use a vulnerable F5 BIG-IP appliance to break into the broader enterp...