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Everything You Need to Know About the Facebook Data Breach
The personal data of 533 million Facebook users leaked online. That’s a large percentage of the world’s population, so you should check to see if…
Ransomware operators are piling on already hacked Exchange servers
(credit: Aurich Lawson / Ars Technica) Microsoft Exchange servers compromised in a first round of attacks are getting infected for a second time by a…
Microsoft Defender will automatically prevent Exchange server exploits
Microsoft Defender Antivirus has been updated so that it automatically mitigates CVE-2021-26855 on vulnerable Exchange servers. Source: https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-defender-prevent-exchange-server-exploits-191547916.html Proactive Computing found this story and shared…
SolarWinds Hackers Also Went After NASA and the FAA
Apparently not content with having penetrated the networks of such piddling federal agencies as the U.S. State Department, the Department of Homeland Security, and that…
Chinese hackers are leveraging flaws in Microsoft Exchange Server to steal emails
Security researchers reported at least 30,000 organizations across the US have been hacked over the past few days by an unusually aggressive Chinese cyber-espionage unit…
Microsoft Says Chinese Hackers Responsible for Exchange Attacks
Microsoft had a warning for its customers on Tuesday, and it’s boldly calling out the bad actors. According to Microsoft, Chinese hackers are behind Exchange…
Gab hacked — 70 GB of passwords, private posts taken, says transparency group DDoSecrets
The far-right hate platform Gab has been hacked and 70GB of private posts and other data are being made available to journalists and social scientists,…
Law Firm Accused of ‘Aiding’ Trump’s Election Disputes Gets Data Stolen By Hackers
A ransomware gang claims to have stolen over 100 gigabytes of data from Jones Day, a prominent global law firm that recently stirred backlash for…
The SolarWinds Hack Just Keeps Getting Wilder
Now the Chinese are involved. That’s one of the newest allegations to emerge in the SolarWinds scandal, the supply chain “cyber Pearl Harbor” that seems…
SolarWinds hack may have been much wider than first thought
The scope of the SolarWinds hack keeps growing. The New York Times has conducted interviews indicating that the allegedly Russia-backed campaign was much further-reaching than…
T-Mobile warns customers of second data breach in less than a year
As if 2020 weren’t bad enough, some T-Mobile customers are winding down the year with word of a data breach. According to reports from BleepingComputer…
Pompeo: Russia behind cyber hack of U.S. agencies
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo publicly blamed Russia for the monthslong cyber hack of agencies across the U.S. government. “This was a very significant effort,…
Foreign state hackers reportedly breached the US Treasury
Foreign hackers may be running rampant in the US government. Reuters sources said a group backed by a foreign government stole data from the Treasury…
Spotify Reset Passwords After Users’ Account Info Exposed
For the second time in a few months, Spotify has had to reset the passwords for user accounts. This time, Spotify passwords were reset by…
A ransomware attack has shut down Baltimore’s public schools
Students in the Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS) system have suddenly found themselves with an extra day off for the Thanksgiving holiday, but it wasn’t…
Spotify resets up to 350,000 passwords linked to third-party data leak
Spotify has reportedly begun resetting the passwords of up to 350,000 accounts that were breached as the result of a credential-stuffing attack. A company called…
What a Data Breach Policy Is and Why You Need One
Data breaches have always been disastrous, and new data privacy laws compel organizations to protect data subjects making the impact of breaches even worse. A…
Jack Daniel’s Hit with Ransomware, Decade of Data Stolen
It doesn’t matter the size of your company or what your business is – you are still susceptible to a cyberattack. The Jack Daniel’s distributor…
Cisco security breach hits corporate servers that ran unpatched software
Enlarge (credit: Prayitno / Flickr) Six servers Cisco uses to provide a virtual networking service were compromised by hackers who exploited critical flaws contained in…
GoDaddy confirms security breach affecting 28,000 hosting accounts
GoDaddy has admitted to BleepingComputer that 28,000 customers’ hosting accounts had been compromised in a security breach. The company notified affected users through an email…
J.Crew says a hacker accessed some customer accounts
Clothing giant J.Crew said an unknown number of customers had their online accounts accessed “by an unauthorized party” almost a year ago, but is only…
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