After getting hold of the login details of a Microsoft customer support agent, threat actors obtained sensitive email account data of a limited number of users of Microsoft email services (such as …
Nine in 10 CNI Providers Damaged by Cyber-Attacks
A new report by the Ponemon Institute and Tenable highlights the growing cyber threat to critical infrastructure. The survey found that a whopping 90% of critical infrastructure providers suffered a …
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Watchdog: FEMA Wrongly Released Personal Data of Victims
The Homeland Security Department’s Office of Inspector General has discovered a massive data breach at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), affecting 2.3 million survivors of hurricanes and …
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Database leaks 250K legal documents, some marked ‘not designated for publication’
A security researcher with Security Discovery recently stumbled upon an unprotected server that left 257,287 legal documents exposed to the internet. The records are all related to US legal cases from …
Hacker returns and puts 26Mil user records for sale on the Dark Web
A threat actor using the moniker ‘Gnosticplayers’ has once again uploaded a database containing millions of records to a popular dark web marketplace. Last month, Gnosticplayers put three massive data …
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Data breach reports delayed as organizations struggle to achieve GDPR compliance
A new Freedom of Information (FOI) request by Redscan for data from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) reveals that UK businesses were seriously falling short in terms of data breach …
IT managers can’t ignore endpoints because most cyberattacks start there
New research by Sophos shows that cyberattacks are rarely discovered on endpoints, even though that is where many cyberattacks start. The survey found that while 37% of cyberattacks on mid-sized …
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Iranian Group Stole 6TBs of data from Citrix
Cybersecurity company Resecurity claims that hackers belonging to the IRIDIUM group that has been linked to Iran have stolen 6 terabytes of valuable corporate data from software vendor Citrix. …
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An Email Marketing Company Left 809 Million Records Exposed Online
Once again, an unsecured database has exposed sensitive data on millions of people and companies This time, "email validation" firm Verifications.io failed to properly secure a MongoDB database …
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Hundreds of immigrant recruits risk ‘death sentence’ after Army bungles data, lawmaker says
Between July 2017 and Jan. 2018, US Army officials accidentally sent immigrant recruits a confidential list containing sensitive information on over 4,200 immigrant recruits on at least three separate …