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Security Flaw That Caused SolarWinds Breach Was Ignored for Years, According to Former Microsoft Employee
Whistleblower paints a picture of a corporate culture where Azure sales and feature innovation were stressed over all to product managers, and the many security flaws that were reported as part of this rapid development were pushed to “won’t fix” status.
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Long-Term Disruption to Government Services Expected With Indonesian National Data Center Crippled by LockBit Cyber Attack
LockBit hackers took advantage of a temporary national data center, one of four used by Indonesia’s government, to deploy ransomware and snarl various services in the country in a cyber attack last week.
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AMD Data Breach Confirmed, But Hacking Forum Claims About Scope of Stolen Data Still in Question
IntelBroker of the underground hacking forum BreachForums is at it again, and AMD has confirmed that the claimed data breach is legitimate and involved an unnamed third party vendor.
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London Hospitals Weather Blood Shortages, Delayed Operations as Cyber Attack Snarls Pathology Lab Partner
Recent cyber attack on London hospitals, caused by an attack on a shared pathology lab that had been previously identified as a cybersecurity risk shows the popularity of healthcare organizations as a target for ransomware.
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US Bans Kaspersky Products; New Sales to Stop July 20, Updates Cut Off on September 29
Kaspersky joins TikTok in facing US bans over hypothetical espionage. The move will likely cause substantial financial damage to the company. Kaspersky products are widely used in the US in spite of concerns about Russian hacking.
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New Details Emerge on October 2023 Cyber Attack That Permanently Destroyed 600,000 Internet Routers
A fairly major destructive cyber attack that took place over half a year ago is only just now becoming known to the public. ISP in the Midwest region of the United States was targeted and about 600,000 internet routers ended up being destroyed.
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6 Years of “Routine” Privacy Breaches Revealed as Google Database Leak Emerges
A Google insider has released a database leak documenting six years of privacy breaches that were largely unknown to the general public. While each of the items in the database leak is small, there are thousands in total, spanning six years of company history.
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Ticketmaster Data Breach May Be Tip of the Iceberg as ShinyHunters Claims Compromise of Snowflake Storage
If the Hudson Rock post turns out to be fully accurate, the origin of the Ticketmaster data breach (and all other incidents involving Snowflake customers) may have taken place all the way back in October 2023.
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Big Blow Struck to Major Botnets by International Law Enforcement Operation
Some of the biggest names in the botnet game, including 911 S5 and TrickBot, have been seriously impacted. In some cases, arrests of central figures were made during the Europol law enforcement investigation.
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Ticketmaster Customers Enraged Again as Reports of 560 Million Record Data Breach Surface
As if Ticketmaster had not earned enough negative sentiment already, the company now appears to be dealing with a massive data breach impacting about 560 million Ticketmaster customers.