October 10, 2023 23andMe, a genetic testing company, has announced that it believes some of its users' data was compromised in a credential-stuffing attack. In a credential-stuffing attack, hackers use stolen usernames and passwords from other websites to more...
October 9, 2023 A U.S. bank notifies over 800,000 people of a MOVEit hack, data stolen from a DNA testing service, and more. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Monday, October 9th, 2023. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter more...
October 6, 2023 Welcome to Cyber Security Today. This is the Week in Review for the week ending Friday, October 6th, 2023. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the U.S. In more...
October 6, 2023 The Qakbot gang is still operating. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Friday, October 6th, 2023. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the U.S. The operators behind the Qakbot more...
October 6, 2023 Last month’s cyber attack by the AlphV ransomware gang on MGM Resorts cost the company at least US$100 million in disruption and lost business, plus another US$10 million in IT recovery costs, it said in more...
October 6, 2023 A four-hour system outage at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri, was reportedly caused by a cat jumping on a technician's keyboard and deleting a server cluster configuration file. The story was more...
October 5, 2023 A nationwide test of the wireless emergency alert system was conducted on Wednesday, October 4, 2023, at 2:20 PM ET. The test was conducted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Federal Communications more...
October 4, 2023 BlackBerry has made it official: It plans to split the Canadian company in half. In a news release Wednesday, the company said its board has decided that separating the IoT and Cybersecurity business units into more...
October 4, 2023 Apple today released emergency patches for a wide range of iPhones and iPads. Users should ensure their devices are running versions 17.0.3 of the operating systems. The update closes two vulnerabilities: — CVE-2023-42824, a hole more...
October 4, 2023 Another example of what looks like an employee-generated configuration error exposed three million corporate and customer records of a software company to anyone who could find it on the internet. According to security researcher Jeremiah more...
