Hacker defaces website of firm supplying apps to police, may have stolen data
The attack comes after allegations a misconfigured app of the company, Odin Intelligence, allowed anyone to see sensitive p
Cyber Security Today, Jan. 16, 2023 – Hackers use stolen credentials to beat Norton Password Manager, and more
This episode reports on hackers trying to exploit unpatched versions of Control Web Panel, indicators of compromise for a ManageEngine bug, FortiOS VPNs being targete
LCBO hacked to compromise customer data
The Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) said that an unknown person integrated “malicious code” on its website to collect customer information, and that personal data may have been compromised as a result. Names, email and mailing addresses, credit card information, Aeroplan numbers, and LCBO account passwords are among the items that could be compromised. […]
Vietnamese AI expert faces ejection from U.S. over Meta lay off
Huy Tu, an AI expert from Vietnam, has 90 days to find work or leave the United States after being laid off by Meta. Tu is in the United States on a work visa, which, like most work visas, is tied to Tu’s job. Tu had 90 days after losing his job to find a […]
Canadian court orders woman to repay employer for time theft
Karlee Besse, a Canadian woman who worked remotely as an accountant for Reach CPA, was instructed by a civil tribunal to reimburse her former employer for “time theft” after she was caught taking on wrong working hours by a controversial tracking software. A civil tribunal, which is part of Canada’s judicial system, ruled that Besse […]
Informatica to cut workforce by 7 percent
According to a company filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Informatica is laying off about 450 employees, or about 7% of its workforce. “So today I am sharing the difficult news that we are eliminating positions or entering the consultation process in several business functions which will impact approximately 7% of our very […]
Lawmakers condemn FAA outage, wants remedy
Over 120 U.S. lawmakers informed the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Wednesday that the computer outage that interrupted 11,000 flights was “completely unacceptable” and requested the agency clarifies how it intends to avoid future incidents. “While it appears at this time that the Notice to Air-Missions- or NOTAM-system malfunction was not a result of a […]
Spotify back up after outage
Spotify, a music streaming platform, experienced a brief outage on Friday night, leaving several users without access to the live music streaming platform. According to DownDetector, over 38,000 users in the United States reported issues while using the audio streaming platform. At 7.12 a.m., more than 5,500 users in the United Kingdom reported problems with […]
NASA overspent $15 million on unused Oracle licenses amidst audit fear
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) invested a whopping $15 million on Oracle software over the last five years, per an audit report, because it did lack a centralized software asset management practice. The Office of Inspector General of the aerospace agency published a report that revealed through an observation that NASA’s software […]
Norton LifeLock’s Password Manager accounts breached
Customers of Norton LifeLock were victims of a credential-stuffing attack after cyberattackers broke into Norton accounts and password managers using a third-party list of stolen username and password combinations. Gen Digital, Norton LifeLock’s parent company, stated in a customer notice that the likely source was a credential stuffing attack, in which previously exposed or breached […]
