June 15, 2022 An Illinois man has been sentenced to two years in prison for running a distributed denial of service (DDoS) platform that enabled threat actors to perform more than 200,000 attacks. Matthew Gatrel, 33, created and more...
June 15, 2022 The ALPHV ransomware group, aka BlackCat, took its operations to a new level by building a dedicated website where customers and employees of their victim organization can check if their data was breached in an more...
June 15, 2022 Kaiser Permanente, the biggest nonprofit health plan provider in America, recently announced a data breach that exposed highly sensitive health information of close to 70,000 patients. In a June 3 notice sent to patients, Kaiser more...
June 15, 2022 Researchers have discovered that microprocessors from Intel, AMD, and others have a weakness that attackers can exploit to obtain cryptographic keys and other secret data traveling via hardware. The team discovered that dynamic voltage and more...
June 9, 2022 Tesla’s 2021 update that made its vehicles easier to start once unlocked using their NFC key cards can be exploited to steal cars. This was recently demonstrated by a researcher who studied the said vulnerability. more...
June 8, 2022 The NSA, CISA, and the FBI published a joint cybersecurity advisory stating that Chinese hackers have taken advantage of publicly known vulnerabilities to breach anything from unpatched small office/home office (SOHO) routers all the way more...
June 7, 2022 Online security provider firm Secureworks has detected a new cybercrime campaign wherein unsecured internet-facing Elasticsearch instances are used to steal databases and replace them with a ransom note to obtain the database back. Secureworks Counter more...
June 3, 2022 The biggest mistake IT leaders make in trying to secure sensitive data is not understanding where their data is and how it flows, says Cisco Systems’ vice-president and chief privacy officer. Harvey Jang, VP and more...
May 29, 2022 Meta has updated the privacy policies of Facebook and Instagram, in an effort to simplify and make it easier to understand how the company utilizes its customers’ information. This development comes amidst intense criticism by more...
May 29, 2022 Tax software vendor Intuit cautioned QuickBooks users that they are being targeted in ongoing phishing attacks where threat actors pose as Intuit personnel to lure them with phony account suspension warnings. "We're writing to let more...
