It’s being reported that Miami tech company Intcomex has suffered major data breach. The Miami-based “value-added solutions and technology products” company was hit with a major data breach, with nearly 1 TB of its users’ data leaked. The leaked data includes credit cards, passport and license scans, personal data, payroll, financial documents, customer databases, employee information and more. Parts of the data were leaked on a popular Russian hacker forum for free, with the first part made available on September 14, 2020, and the second part on September 20. The leaker originally promised to release the entire stolen database over an undisclosed period…
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Today marks the beginning of Amazon Prime Day, a two-day event where millions of customers are set to go online and take advantage of one of the biggest sales of the year.
Tyler Technologies has paid a ransom for a decryption key to recover files encrypted in a recent ransomware attack. Tyler Technologies states that they are the largest software company in North America devoted to the public sector, with over $1.2 billion in revenue for 2020 and 5,500 employees.
The Georgia Department of Human Services (DHS) notified the public of a recent cyberattack in which bad actors gained unauthorized access to employee email accounts that revealed the PII and PHI of children and adults involved in Child Protective Services (CPS) cases of the DHS Division of Family & Children Services (DFCS). A data privacy and security expert with Stealthbits offers perspective.
According to reports, the agency said the Federal Aviation Administration has not developed a training program for cybersecurity or test airplane computer systems that could be vulnerable to attack. The GAO said that without improvements, “FAA may not be able to ensure sufficient oversight to guard against evolving avionics cybersecurity risks. The GAO recommends that FAA conduct a risk assessment of security of avionics systems and train inspectors to judge security of avionics systems. It said FAA should also enact guidance that includes independent testing of cybersecurity on new airplane designs. The GAO report focused on the vulnerability of systems on…
As reported by The Independent, at least 50,000 home security cameras have been hacked with personal footage being stolen and shared online. A report on AsiaOne shared that the rather large amount of stolen footage was uploaded onto pornographic sites, tagging many of the videos as being specifically from Singapore. The videos are said to be between less than a minute to more than 20 minutes each, and they show a variety of homes with people in different states of undress, or in compromising positions. Many show couples, mothers who are breastfeeding, and even children.
Media outlets are reporting that Hackney Council in London has been the target of a serious cyberattack, which is affecting many of its services and IT systems. This is the latest attack to hit a UK local council in recent months – in February Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council said it had been hit by a ransomware attack, which cost it more than £10m.
2020 saw a major disruption in the way many work, learn, and socialise online. Our homes and businesses are more connected than ever. With more people now working from home, these two internet-connected environments are colliding on a scale we’ve never seen before, introducing a whole new set of potential vulnerabilities that users must be conscious of. Week 2 of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month will focus on steps users and organisations can take to protect internet-connected devices for both personal and professional use.
Dr Lal PathLabs, one of the largest lab testing companies in India, left a huge cache of patient data on a public server for months, TechCrunch has learned. The lab testing giant, headquartered in New Delhi, serves some 70,000 patients a day, and quickly became a major player in testing patients for COVID-19 after winning approval from the Indian government. But the company was storing hundreds of large spreadsheets packed with sensitive patient data in a storage bucket, hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), without a password, allowing anyone to access the data inside.
It was reported that Apple’s corporate network was at risk of hacks that could have stolen sensitive data from potentially millions of its customers and executed malicious code on their phones and computers. Sam Curry, a 20-year-old researcher who specialises in website security, said that, in total, he and his team found 55 vulnerabilities. He rated 11 of them critical because they allowed him to take control of core Apple infrastructure and from there steal private emails, iCloud data, and other private information.