This week ransomware continues to develop, as well as phishing tactics. Popular mobile platform GOMO was breached in a big way, and one of the largest banks in India was robbed over the weekend.
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This week we saw mobile apps making headlines. Tinder was used by a potential spy to unsuccessfully bait military secrets out of an airman and Snapchat’s source code was published on Github. The marketing campaign for the PGA championship has hit a speed bump in the form of a ransomware attack and an Australian hospital specializing in maternal health exposed treatments on the web.
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This week contains the high-profile breach of Reddit, healthcare and education sectors and an exploration of a Dark Web hacking forum.
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Breach news to share with your customers!
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This week serves up a reminder why medical data should be handled with care, as it’s among the most highly sought after and valuable for bad actors. Two of the biggest telecommunications providers in the world were also breached this week, which is what happens when you “phone in” cyber security.
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While it has been a slow week in terms of the number of breaches, the severity of the breaches that did occur this week is nothing short of disturbing. The information exposed on the open web by ALERRT could be used with far-reaching effects…including both physical and permanent consequences. A cyber-attack conducted against a small business hosting provider in Australia also highlights a “WORST case” scenario for a breach. I strongly encourage everyone to check out their website here for a sobering reminder of what a company crippled by a breach looks like. When you cannot contact your customers to tell them that you have been breached, because you don’t even have a complete list of who your customers are… well, this is a good example of how damaging a breach can be. In other news…
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Breach news to share with your customers! Hacks this week showed no mercy or regard to international boundaries. From North America to Australia, businesses of all sizes, across all industries were targeted. Malware injection and insecure databases were some of the most damaging compromises highlighted this week. At least 230 million individuals and 110 million businesses exposed on the Dark Web… YIKES. Highlights from The Week in Breach: Ransomware be gone! Comcast’s leaky API Another Intel CPU vulnerability? Massive breach exposes how many kids you have and where you live. In other news…
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Breach news to share with your customers! Highlights from The Week in Breach: It’s no surprise that this week has been busy for cyber-attacks on the web, targeting big events such as the World Cup but also continuing to pursue small-and medium-sized businesses across the globe. – Google is still leaking! – Another Dark Web marketplace down in a big win for French authorities. – Do androids dream of electric… rats? A new malware for Android! – Going phishing at the World Cup. In other news…
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Breach news to share with your customers! Highlights from The Week in Breach It should serve as no surprise, two of the breaches profiled this week occurred as the result of compromised email address and passwords. The particular events highlight the need to make password hygiene and compromised credential monitoring front and center.
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