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4 Data Breaches in 4 Years Prompts FTC Action Against Edtech Giant Chegg
The four data breaches that prompted FTC involvement collectively involved the loss of tens of millions of both customer and employee records, and were very preventable had the edtech giant been following basic cybersecurity best practices.
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Code Stolen From Company GitHub Repositories as Dropbox Suffers Security Breach Tied To Phishing
Security breach was traced back to an employee that followed a phishing link to a bogus login page and entered their credentials on October 13. The attackers then took the credentials and used them to raid some 130 GitHub repositories belonging to Dropbox.
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New Study Finds Cybersecurity Workforce Gap Continuing To Grow Despite Historic Influx of New Security Professionals
The good news is that the cybersecurity workforce has grown to about 4.7 million strong worldwide. But a workforce gap of 3.4 million remains in spite of good recent growth.
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Investigation Finds Vishing Attack by Twilio Hack Perpetrator Caused Earlier Breach, Some Customer Information Stolen
The Twilio hack in August was not the first by that particular threat actor. An investigation has turned up an earlier breach by the same party, in which a vishing attack was used to steal a smaller amount of customer information.
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£4.4M Fine for Government Supplier That Opened Door to Cyber Attack
The fine of the government supplier was the fourth largest ever issued in the UK. The ICO ruled that the company lacked employee security training, used outdated operating systems and failed to respond to antivirus warning.
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Patient Data Left on Dark Web for Months as Australian Clinical Labs Delayed Disclosure
At least 17,500 of the leaked ACL records contained some sort of pathology patient data. About 28,000 of the records went to the dark web accompanied by a credit card number, and 3,300 included a CVV.
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Massive Theft of Medical Records From Health Insurance Leader Medibank Continues Worrying Cybersecurity Trend in Australia
Australia has been experiencing a string of high-profile data breaches since late September, and the latest incident in the trend is the theft of 200 GB of medical records from health insurance provider Medibank.
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Most Businesses Believe That Russia-Ukraine Conflict Has Increased Nation-State Attacks, Caused Changes to Cybersecurity Strategy
64% of security decision makers believe they have been targeted or impacted by a nation-state attack, and a similar majority say they have shifted their cybersecurity strategy due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
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Even as Known Risks of Cyber Attacks Grow, Nearly Half of Board Members Say Their Organizations Are Unprepared
Over half of board members appreciate the risk of cyber attacks and are anticipating them in the next 12 months, but just under half (47%) say they feel equipped to deal with them at present.
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Dark Web Marketplace Offers 1.2 Million Stolen Credit Cards as a Promotional Stunt
Dark web marketplaces periodically offer stolen credit cards for free as a promotional stunt, but a recent offering from an outfit calling itself “BidenCash” appears to be the largest one yet with a total of 1.2 million cards.