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 […]
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#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: Global cybersecurity threat outlook for 2020 published
The Information Security Forum (ISF), a resource for executives and board members on cybersecurity and risk management, has announced the organization’s outlook for the top global security threats that businesses will face in 2020. Key threats for the coming year include: The Race for Technology Dominance Third Parties, Internet of Things (IoT) and the Cloud Cybercrime In […]
#Privacy: Getting data security right
This year has seen the pressures facing business reach new heights. Extremely intricate IT environments require businesses to constantly upgrade their applications. They need to improve on efficiencies and comply with tight regulations while keeping up with modern applications, as well as moving operations to the cloud to stay ahead of competitors. This creates a […]
#Privacy: Data breach and ransomware hit British American Tobacco
A Romanian web platform owned by the international tobacco company British American Tobacco (BAT) has suffered a data breach and ransomware attack. The data breach was discovered on an unsecured Elasticsearch server located in Ireland, which involves close to 352 GB of data. In addition, they found that hackers had already gotten to the data and that the […]
#Privacy: Port of Seattle will replace travel documents with facial recognition
In 2019, the Port of Seattle began to prepare for federal and private sector implementation of facial recognition technology for passenger processing at Port facilities. According to a blog, the Port heard from a range of stakeholders at two study sessions in September and October 2019. The first study session focused on how private companies use […]
#Privacy: Automated time and attendance improves efficency
HFX Autotime, one of the UK’s leading developers of SaaS Cloud workforce management solutions, has announced that Tarmac has recently invested in its Time & Attendance (T&A) solution to manage staff working hours at its site Swinden Quarry in the Yorkshire Dales. Staff clock into work on-site using a proximity fob with an installed reader […]
#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 […]