Twilio Breach Reveals 1900 Phone Numbers Owned by Signal Users
About 1,900 phone numbers of Signal users were potentially exposed in the Twilio’s data breach. Twilio, a cloud communications company, suffered a cyberattack on August 4 that led to the exposure of data belonging to 125 of its customers. In order to gain access to Twilio’s servers, the hackers used malicious text messages to gain […]
Nearly 7 million Users Targeted via Malicious Browser Extension
Telemetry data collected by Kaspersky shows that almost 7 million users have attempted to install malicious browser extensions since 2020. The most common payloads transmitted by malicious web browser extensions in the first half of 2022 belonged to adware families. Between January 2020 and June 2022, adware extensions target 4.3 million unique users, accounting for […]
Clop Ransomware Target Wrong U.K. Water Supplier
Despite claims that 5T of data was breached and stolen from Thames Water, the UK’s largest water supplier, published data showed that the Clop ransomware had data from another water supplier. The decision of the hackers to publish the data follows failed negotiations between the two parties involved. After Clop had revealed the stolen credentials, […]
Apple And Meta VR Headsets To Offer Passthrough Mixed Reality
Apple and Meta’s mixed reality headsets will offer users a unique technology known as the passthrough mixed reality tech. In passthrough AR, powerful cameras on the outside of a VR headset record video from the outside world and send it to two or more displays, one in front of the user. Pending the time optical […]
Canadian non-profit gets funding to raise awareness of quantum computing threat
Grant given to Quantum-Safe Canada to help energy and finance sectors plan to implement quantum-resistant
Workers at Amazon Air Freight Hub Protest Pay and Working Conditions
Workers at an Amazon air freight hub in California staged a walkout on Monday demanding better pay and working conditions. The protesting workers formed a group called Inland Empire Amazon Workers United, which said 160 workers had walked out on Monday. Specifically, the workers demanded a US$5 per hour pay rise and better safety conditions. […]
56% Of U.S. Employees Use Personal File Sharing System for Work
According to the OpenText report, 56% of U.S. employees use personal file sharing tools for work-related file sharing to facilitate the execution of tasks. 32% of these employees are aware that their company has a policy against this because of the security risk it poses. 63% of workers say they use personal file-sharing systems to […]
Microsoft Discontinues its “Olympia Corp” Program
Microsoft announced in emails to participants that it would close its Olympia Corp testing laboratory for Windows enterprise users. “We are sending this email to notify you that we will formally be shutting down the Olympia program in a month. We will be unassigning Olympia licenses and deleting the Olympia feedback path. Action Required: Take […]
U.S. SEC Indicts 3 People Who Illegally Traded on Equifax After Cyberattack
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has indicted three people who illegally tipped and traded Equifax securities before the company disclosed a massive data breach. The charged individuals include Ann Dishinger, Lawrence Palmer and Jerrold Palmer. Equifax, a provider of consumer credit scores announced in September that it had suffered a massive data breach between […]
Losses From Crypto Hacks Soar 60% to US$1.9 billion
According to a blog post by blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis, losses from hacks of cryptocurrencies soared by almost 60 percent from January to July to US$1.9 billion, compared with US$1.2 billion stolen from hacking in the same period last year. A steep increase in funds stolen from the decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols contributed mainly to […]
