Cybersecurity

Welcome to high tech hacking in 2022: Annoying users until they say “yes”

Posted: September 22, 2022 by Christopher Boyd Last week we learned that ride-sharing giant Uber’s defences had been unpicked by an attacker with a novel take on social engineering: Fatigue. Fatigue attacks play on the often repetitive nature of certain security procedures and failsafes. Do you hate having to punch in a password on your login screen every time you

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Medtronic’s MiniMed 600 series insulin pumps potentially at risk of compromise, says FDA

Posted: September 22, 2022 by Malwarebytes Labs The US FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has warned users of Medtronic’s MiniMed 600 Series Insulin Pump System—specifically, models for MiniMed 630G and MiniMed 670G—that their medical devices have a cybersecurity issue with its communication protocol. If compromised, attackers could gain unauthorized access to the pump system itself, and alter it to deliver too

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Don’t Let a Cyberattack Ruin Your Business

Download our checklist to learn how a cyber insurance policy can help protect your business from financial losses related to cyber incidents. Get the Coverage You Need With Cyber Insurance In today’s highly digital era, businesses of all sizes are under constant attack from cybercriminals. Small businesses are easy targets since they lack enterprise-level security.

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3 Types of Cyber Insurance You Need to Know About

As the world becomes more digitized and cybercrime increases, the need for cyber insurance is something businesses should not overlook. If your company handles, transmits or stores sensitive data, you need to know about cyber insurance. Cyber insurance is intended to protect businesses from the monetary losses arising from a cyber incident that could jeopardize

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Kiwi Farms breached, user data potentially exposed

Posted: September 20, 2022 by Malwarebytes Labs The operators of a site known to most observers for being in a recent state of flux have announced a forum breach. Kiwi Farms, which gained a reputation for sophisticated trolling and doxxing, was recently dropped by Cloudflare after a sustained campaign to have the DDoS mitigation and cloud hosting service abandon the forum. The

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American Airlines suffers data breach after phishing incident

Posted: September 20, 2022 by Pieter Arntz Major airline American Airlines has fallen victim to a data breach after a threat actor got access to the email accounts of several employees via a phishing attack. According to a published notice of a security incident, the data breach was discovered in July 2022. How it happened American Airlines said the successful phishing attack led

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Grand Theft Auto 6 suffers grand theft

Posted: September 20, 2022 by Christopher Boyd For games publisher Take-Two Interactive, damage control is in full effect as word spreads of a Grand Theft Auto-centric network compromise. Developer Rockstar Games has suffered a major leak of upcoming game content, specifically unfinished video footage of Grand Theft Auto 6. The first anyone knew of the attack was when the

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School app Seesaw compromised to send shock NSFW image

Posted: September 15, 2022 by Jovi Umawing On Wednesday, parents and teachers reported that student learning platform, Seesaw, had been hacked after some users received an infamous explicit photo known as “goatse” on private chats. Schools from districts in Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, New York, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas all experienced similar issues, and began to send out warnings

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