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Microsoft has recently revealed that they discovered that Iranian state-sponsored attackers hacked into the emails accounts of a number of high-profile individuals and attendees at the 2020 Munich Security Conference and the Think 20 summit. It is thought that the attackers successfully targetted more than 100 individuals and Microsoft's Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) have linked them to the Iranian-backed hacking group tracked by the company as Phosphorus (as known as APT 35, Magic Hound and...

Yesterday Home Depot customers in Canada reported being sent hundreds of emails containing other customers order details. Some customers have received upwards of 600 'order ready for pickup' emails, all of which were for different orders. This is a serious data leakages as the orders were not associated with the customers Home Depot accounts that they were sent to. The emails contain personal data such as customers' names, ordered items, order numbers and even partial...

True is a social networking app which promises to 'protect your privacy'. However, they recently experienced a security lapse which exposed one of their serves, resulting in the leakage of users private data, available on the internet for anyone to see. The data leak happened after one of the app's dashboards databases was exposed to the internet without a password meaning that anyone was able to read, search or browse the database at will, including...

The New Hartford Central School district is currently trying to discover who is responsible for a hack on their virtual classroom system. Last week a hacker posing as a student entered a health class where they played loud noises across the speakers and posted a pornographic video which all the students in the virtual classroom could see. The incident sparked outrage among district faculty and parents of Ralph Perry Junior- High School where the hack...

Donal Trump's presidential re-election campaign website was briefly highjacked on Tuesday by hackers who defaced the site. The highjacking lasted less than 30 minutes, although hackers still managed to take over the site despite law enforcement and intelligence agencies being on high alert for digital interferences leading up to the election next week. Tim Murtaugh, a spokesman for the Trump campaign said in a statement that they can confirm that the site was defaced and...

The multinational energy company, Enel Group, have suffered another ransomware attack for the second time this year. This attack was by Netwalker, who are demanding $14 million ransom for the decryption key and for them not to release stolen data. Enel is one of the largest companies in the European energy sector, spanning across 40 countries, with over 61 million customers. In August they ranked 87th in the Fortune Global 500, with a revenue of...

Nozomi Networks Inc. today introduced Vantage, an innovative SaaS-based OT and IoT network visibility and monitoring solution designed to meet the evolving requirements of IoT-enabled infrastructures. “Vantage is a game-changer when it comes to simplifying the integration and centralized management of visibility and security across converged OT, IoT and IT networks of any size,” said Nozomi Networks Co-founder and CPO Andrea Carcano. “More organizations embrace IoT and are looking to the future to revolutionize their...

Red Canary has announced the launch of Red Canary Cloud Workload Protection, a cloud workload protection (CWP) solution that provides visibility and threat detection for security and DevOps teams. This new solution is purpose-built for cloud Linux workloads, focuses on runtime threat protection and response, and integrates seamlessly into DevOps workflows without sacrificing system performance and reliability. "Most businesses don’t have an effective solution in place to identify compromises or adversary activity in their cloud...

Cybercriminals have recently hacked Vastaamo, a psychotherapy giant, and are trying to contact patients threatening to reveal their confidential patient files if they do not pay a ransom. The Finnish psychotherapy company has over 40,000 patients, with customers registered between November 2018 and March 2019 likely to be affected by the breach, although it is unclear why the data is only surfacing now. The breach and the blackmailing of patients has resulted in an emergency...

Amazon has fired a number of employees responsible for a recent data leak which resulted in the exposure of customers data, including their email addresses to an unaffiliated third-party, violating the companies policies Users were alerted of the incident following an email announcement to those who were affected. During the weekend there were reports across Twitter by multiple Amazon customer who had received the email about the data leak, with a number of the customers...