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StarHub suffers data breach, but says no system was compromised

StarHub says personal data of its customers, including email addresses and mobile numbers, have been found on a dump site. The Singapore telco, however, insists none of its customer database or data systems has been breached. 
ZDnet 9 Aug 2021 10344 Views

Want a strong password? You're probably still doing it the wrong way

Security agencies say that three random words can be a better approach than enforcing complexity to achieve account protection.
ZDnet 9 Aug 2021 623 Views

Black Hat: Enterprise players face 'one-two-punch' extortion in ransomware attacks

Intrusions have become even more costly to the enterprise due to double-extortion tactics.
ZDnet 6 Aug 2021 679 Views

Black Hat: Security Bugs Allow Takeover of Capsule Hotel Rooms

A researcher was able to remotely control the lights, bed and ventilation in "smart" hotel rooms via Nasnos vulnerabilities.
Threatpost 5 Aug 2021 612 Views

Several Malware Families Targeting IIS Web Servers With Malicious Modules

A systematic analysis of attacks against Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) servers has revealed as many as 14 malware families, 10 of them newly documented, indicating that the Windows-based web server software continues to be a hotbed for natively developed malware...
The Hacker News 5 Aug 2021 9344 Views

Unpatched Security Flaws Expose Mitsubishi Safety PLCs to Remote Attacks

Multiple unpatched security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Mitsubishi safety programmable logic controllers (PLCs) that could be exploited by an adversary to acquire legitimate user names registered in the module via a brute-force attack, unauthorizedly login to the CPU module, and even cause a...
The Hacker News 5 Aug 2021 8626 Views

Worried your data protection strategy is dated? Don’t let a ransomware infection prove you right

Trust us – you need to tune into this Webcast  Some say the best form of defense is offense. But when it comes to modern ransomware from cyber-crime orgs that are well-funded, possibly have state actor backing, and have your data under...
The Register 5 Aug 2021 8489 Views

COVID-19 vaccine portal for Italy's Lazio region hit with cyberattack

Government officials took to Facebook to say no data was stolen and to notify residents of the daily COVID-19 figures.
ZDnet 3 Aug 2021 741 Views

NSA Warns Public Networks are Hacker Hotbeds

Agency warns attackers targeting teleworkers to steal corporate data.
Threatpost 31 Jul 2021 487 Views

Ransomware attempt volume sets record, reaches more than 300 million for first half of 2021: SonicWall

The US, UK, Germany, South Africa and Brazil topped the list of countries most impacted by ransomware attempts while states like Florida and New York struggled as well.
ZDnet 31 Jul 2021 584 Views