This week, the cybersecurity industry's most basic assumptions under scrutiny. Following up our conversation with Wolfgang Goerlich, where he questions the value of phishing simulations, we discuss essays that call into question: the maturity of the industry, the supposed "talent gap" with millions of open jobs despite complaints that this industry...
Such an intrusion, which has been conducted alongside Ukrainian hacking group BO Team, resulted not only in the defacement of Osnovanie's website but also the destruction of sensitive server-stored data and a database with 1.5 million electronic digital signatures, said the HUR.
Investigation by the FCC revealed that AT&T had failed to dispose of customer data shared with the unnamed firm it enlisted for billing and marketing efforts dating back to 2017 and 2018 even though several evaluations from 2016 to 2020 purported the vendor's compliance with data deletion policies.
Attackers were able to compromise 23andMe over five months beginning April 2023, enabling access to 5.5 million DNA Relatives profiles and details from 1.4 million users of the Family Tree feature, said the company in a disclosure in October.
Attackers may have obtained certain Port data in mid-to-late August before proceeding with encrypting such information, resulting in the outages of its baggage, ticketing, Wi-Fi, and reserved parking services, as well as check-in kiosks, passenger display boards, the flySEA app, and the Port of Seattle website, said officials.
Aside from noting that a potential compromise of publicly available voter registration details would not affect the process or results of the upcoming election, both the FBI and CISA emphasized that there has been no indication of any intrusion that would impact electoral integrity.
Infiltration of TfL's internal systems on September 1 resulted in the exfiltration of some customers' names and contact information, as well as refund data belonging to nearly 5,000 Oyster cardholders.
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