One of the biggest data center providers in the US, CyrusOne announced on Thursday that it has suffered a ransomware attack. In a statement, CyrusOne revealed that six of its managed service customers, located primarily in New York, have been impacted – thus experiencing availability issues as a result of the ransomware encrypting devices in […]
Author: Meera Narendra
#Privacy: FBI issues warning over money mules
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a warning regarding money mules after a family from Oregon lost their life savings. Aaron Cole and his wife, had made the decision to sell and use the equity they had built to purchase a much larger home. After selling their existing home, the title company had informed […]
#Privacy: Around 44m Microsoft users have reused passwords
Tens of millions of Microsoft users are employing the same usernames and passwords that have been previously leaked online from security breaches. Microsoft’s threat research team checked over 3 billion credentials obtained from security breaches in 2019, to which the team found a match for over 44 million Azure AD and Microsoft Services Accounts. “For […]
#Privacy: Nebraska Medicine suffers data breach
An audit on the electronic health records system discovered that an employee was accessing patient records without authorisation. Between July 11 and October 1, 2019 – an employee had gained access to patients’ medical records outside of the employee’s job role and apparently with no particular reason. Compromised information included names, dates of birth, addresses, […]
#Privacy: Sprint contractor exposes over 250K mobile phone bills
Marketing company Deardorff Communications has exposed 261,300 mobile phone bills due to an unprotected cloud server online. The server contained hundreds of thousands of phone bills of AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon subscribers. The bills contained names, addresses, phone numbers and call histories of subscribers. In some cases, extremely sensitive documents such as bank statements and […]
#Privacy: UK retailer falls victim to Magecart attack
The UK e-commerce store Sweaty Betty has announced that threat actors managed to insert malicious code into its website and steal customer payment details. In an email sent to customers on Tuesday, the store had recently been made aware of ”unusual activity” on its website. The email went on to add that a malicious third […]
#Privacy: National cybersecurity policy to be developed in Jamaica
Jamaica has announced plans that it is working towards the development of a National Cyber Policy in 2020. Speaking at a Cybersecurity and Cybercrime Workshop for Latin America and the Caribbean at the Hilton Resort and Spa in St. James, Jamaica’s minister of national security, Dr. Horace Chang said that the policy will help protect […]
#Privacy: American SMBs are in fear of cyber-attacks from foreign countries
New research has revealed that SMB executives and IT decision makers report that potential cyberthreats are a top concern. In the Q4 Cyberthreat Index for Business Survey by Zix-AppRiver, it was revealed that an overwhelming 93% of all SMB executives surveyed believe that foreign adversaries are attempting to breach the nation’s security or wage an […]
#Privacy: DHS wants to expand facial recognition checks for travellers and U.S citizens
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to expand facial recognition checks on all people entering and leaving the U.S. In a recent filing, the DHS has proposed that all travellers including U.S citizens will have to undergo facial recognition checks before they are allowed to enter or leave the country. Previously, the DHS only […]
#Privacy: TikTok found secretly transferring user data to China
According to a lawsuit file by a college student TikTok has been secretly transferring user data to China without gaining consent. The class-action lawsuit filed in California, accuses TikTok of secretly harvesting large amounts of personally identifiable user data and sending it to China. In addition, the lawsuit accuses TikTok and its parent company ByteDance, […]