Operations at the French municipalities of Montoir-de-Bretagne, Pornichet, Saint-Nazaire, La Chapelle-des-marais, and Donges, have been disrupted by a massive cyberattack earlier this week, which officials noted could take months to be completely resolved, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
In the days when Mirai emerged and took down DynDNS, along with what seemed like half the Internet, DDoS was as active a topic in the headlines as it was behind the scenes (check out Andy Greenberg's amazing story on Mirai on Wired). We don't hear about DDoS attacks as much anymore. What happened? Well, they didn't go away. DDoS attacks are a more ...
Major French multinational hospitality firm Accor had a database containing personal information from 642,000 individuals purportedly stolen from a cyberattack last month exposed by IntelBroker on BreachForums, reports Cybernews.
This week, Tyler and Adrian discuss Cyera's $300M Series C, which lands them a $1.4B valuation! But is that still a unicorn? Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures, who coined the term back in 2013, recently wrote a piece celebrating the 10th anniversary of the term, and revisiting what it means. We HIGHLY recommend checking it out: https://www.cowboy.vc/ne...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has disclosed that data leaked by threat actor USDoD on BreachForums over the weekend involved information that had already been made available to the public as part of the agency's efforts to provide "a comprehensive picture of environmental impacts," Cybernews reports.
Dronepocalypse, Privacy, Microsoft, DLINK, Home Depot, Phishing, NIST, VenomRat, Josh Marpet, and more, are on this edition of the Security Weekly News.
Officials of the Palau government have dismissed claims by the DragonForce ransomware operation alleging the theft of more than 21GB of data from the island nation's systems, which it threatened to leak by Wednesday, as well as ongoing negotiations between both parties, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
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