Rackspace Ransomware Attack Update: What You Need to KnowDuring the recent Rackspace ransomware attack, the company confirmed hackers accessed customer data. Rackspace staff and cybersecurity researchers have...
Month: February 2023
What Is Managed Extended Detection and Response (MXDR)?
What Is Managed Extended Detection and Response (MXDR)?Managed Extended Detection and Response (MXDR) is yet another step toward the perfect security solution. Researchers designed MXDR with...
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Activision Breached: Here Is What Happened
Activision Breached: Here Is What HappenedGame developer Activision confirms that it suffered a data breach in December 2022. The threat actors gained access to the company’s...
Access-as-a-Service: How to Keep Access Brokers Away from Your Organization
Access-as-a-Service: How to Keep Access Brokers Away from Your OrganizationAn attacker’s access to the network is often traced back to a succession of events, which network...
What Is Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)?
What Is Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)?The Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) is a protocol built into the IP suite whose main function is to allow...
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Hackers Claim They Breached Telus, Canada’s Second-largest Telecom Company
Hackers Claim They Breached Telus, Canada’s Second-largest Telecom CompanyTelus is now investigating the possibility of a data breach affecting its corporate data. The Canadian telecom company...
WSUS Alternative for Patch Management
WSUS Alternative for Patch ManagementWe already know that patching is a practice of the utmost importance when it comes to the security of businesses. WSUS has...
KPI Examples for Patch and Vulnerability Management
KPI Examples for Patch and Vulnerability ManagementVulnerability and patch management are vital cogs in an organization’s cyber-hygiene plan. According to a recent Verizon cyber-safety report, more...
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Food Giant Dole, Victim of a Ransomware Attack
Food Giant Dole, Victim of a Ransomware AttackDole Food Company, one of the world’s largest suppliers of fresh fruit and vegetables, has revealed that it has...
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Dish Network Goes Offline: A Cyberattack Might Be the Cause
Dish Network Goes Offline: A Cyberattack Might Be the CauseDish Network, an American TV and satellite broadcast provider, has experienced problems with both its website and...
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Stanford University Is Facing a Data Breach
Stanford University Is Facing a Data BreachStanford University discovered a breach that affected its data between December 2022 and January 2023. Threat actors exfiltrated files containing...
PureCrypter Malware Is Targeting Government Entities
PureCrypter Malware Is Targeting Government EntitiesA threat actor has been spotted delivering several information stealers and ransomware strains to government organizations via the PureCrypter malware downloader....
What Is Identity as a Service (IDaaS)?
What Is Identity as a Service (IDaaS)?The X-as-a-service approach in information technology is quite simple to understand. It means that a feature is being provided to...
How to remove yourself from the internet and from people search sites
How to remove yourself from the internet and from people search sitesGraham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the folks at Incogni. Thanks to...
Smashing Security podcast #308: Jail after VPN fail, criminal messaging apps, and wolf-crying watches
Smashing Security podcast #308: Jail after VPN fail, criminal messaging apps, and wolf-crying watchesWhen Ubiquiti suffered a hack the world assumed it was just a regular...
Bungling Optus scammer was no criminal mastermind
Bungling Optus scammer was no criminal mastermindPerhaps the biggest punishment of all will be Dennis Su's name being forever associated with an extraordinarily inept and cack-handed...
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Hard drugs actively sold on Twitter in plain sight. Twitter says it doesn’t breach its safety policies
Hard drugs actively sold on Twitter in plain sight. Twitter says it doesn’t breach its safety policiesWant to sell some cocaine, ecstasy (MDMA), crystal meth, or...
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Dallas Central Appraisal District paid $170,000 to ransomware attackers
Dallas Central Appraisal District paid $170,000 to ransomware attackersA Dallas state agency has admitted to paying $170,000 to hackers after it suffered an attack from the...
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Ransomware attackers steal over 3 million patients’ medical records
Ransomware attackers steal over 3 million patients’ medical recordsA ransomware attack has again put the personal information of innocent parties at risk after it was revealed...
Gulp! Pepsi hack sees personal information stolen by data-stealing malware
Gulp! Pepsi hack sees personal information stolen by data-stealing malwareTowards the end of last year, malicious hackers broke into the systems of Pepsi Bottling Ventures, the...
Smashing Security podcast #309: Synthetic voices, ChatGPT reflections, and social skirmishes
Smashing Security podcast #309: Synthetic voices, ChatGPT reflections, and social skirmishesAI-generated voices are weaponised by online trolls, how ChatGPT reflects who we are as a society,...
Russian cybersecurity firm owner convicted of $90 million SEC earning reports hack
Russian cybersecurity firm owner convicted of $90 million SEC earning reports hackThe owner of a Russian penetration-testing company has been found guilty of being part of...
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Scandinavian Airlines website hit by cyber attack, customer details exposed
Scandinavian Airlines website hit by cyber attack, customer details exposedA group calling itself "Anonymous Sudan" has claimed responsibility for a cyber attack which knocked the website...
Take a tour of the Edgescan Cybersecurity Platform
Take a tour of the Edgescan Cybersecurity PlatformGraham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the folks at Edgescan. Thanks to the great team there...
As Twitter forces users to remove text message 2FA, it’s in danger of decreasing security
As Twitter forces users to remove text message 2FA, it’s in danger of decreasing securityMany Twitter users have been presented with a message telling them that...
HardBit ransomware tells corporate victims to share their cyber insurance details
HardBit ransomware tells corporate victims to share their cyber insurance detailsA ransomware outfit is advising its victims to secretly tell them how much insurance they have,...
Hackers blamed after Russian radio stations play warnings of missile strikes and air raids
Hackers blamed after Russian radio stations play warnings of missile strikes and air raidsRussian media has blamed hackers after commercial radio stations in the country broadcast...
Smashing Security podcast #310: Verified blue ticks and horny AI chatbots
Smashing Security podcast #310: Verified blue ticks and horny AI chatbotsBoyfriends who are bots, Facebook’s checkmark charge, Twitter Blue, and Will Ferrell’s taunt of football fans…...
Food giant Dole hit by ransomware, halts North American production temporarily
Food giant Dole hit by ransomware, halts North American production temporarilyEarlier this month a cyber attack on food produce giant Dole caused the firm to shut...
Fake ChatGPT apps spread Windows and Android malware
Fake ChatGPT apps spread Windows and Android malwareMalicious hackers are taking advantage of people searching the internet for free access to ChatGPT in order to direct...