As reported by The Guardian, hackers have carried out a “malicious” cyber attack on Telstra, creating connectivity issues for some home internet users. Telstra reported the denial of service attack on its servers on Sunday which led to widespread internet outages in Australia’s eastern states. A denial of service attack floods a network with traffic or information to trigger a crash, denying legitimate users access. Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane were the main outage hotspots. The telecommunications giant insisted customers’ personal data hadn’t been compromised and apologised for the outage.
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Recent news broke that the European Union (EU) is imposing its first-ever sanctions related to cybercrime, against six individuals and three entities accused of conducting disruptive cyberattacks in Europe. Cybersecurity experts provide an insight below on this news.
France-based major hardware wallet provider Ledger has admitted it suffered a data breach on June 17 that appears to have allowed a “third party” access to at least 1 million of its users’ contact details. The firm took to Twitter to state that its marketing and e-commerce database was compromised through a third party’s API key that was misconfigured on their website, exposing its customers’ contact details and order information, although Ledger claimed that there was no spill of crypto holdings or client transaction information.
Following the major security breach suffered by Twitter on 15 July, it has confirmed that the hack targeted a small number of employees through a phone “spear-phishing” attack. Attackers targeted specific employees who had access to account support tools, Twitter said. The company added it has since restricted access to its internal tools and systems.
Chinese hackers infiltrated the Vatican’s computer networks in the past three months, a private monitoring group has concluded, in an apparent espionage effort before the beginning of sensitive negotiations with Beijing. The attack was detected by Recorded Future, a firm based in Somerville, Mass. The Chinese Communist Party has been waging a broad campaign to tighten its grip on religious groups, in what government leaders have periodically referred to as an effort to “Sinicize religions” in the country. More information: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/us/politics/china-vatican-hack.html
Securing customer trust is one of the most vital things a Communications Service Provider (CSP) can do to not only win business, but keep it. As new services are launched from new technological innovation, such as 5G, customers that have trust in a provider will look to them to update their network infrastructure. This holds true for both consumers and enterprises, the latter of which put trust at a premium because their business data and reputations are on the line. Securing information as part of a service is more critical than ever. Implementing end-to-end security operations for devices, access sites,…
The checkpoint research team reported a slew of flaws in OkCupid’s popular dating app, allowing attackers to collect users’ sensitive information, change their profile, or even send messages from their profile. Cybersecurity experts reacted below on this research.
According to researchers, a maximum severity vulnerability in the wpDiscuz plugin installed on over 80,000 WordPress sites can be exploited to give attackers the ability to upload arbitrary files, including PHP files, and achieve remote code execution on a vulnerable site’s server.
Now, the intense race is on between development and security. Thanks to the rapid technological advancements and changing trends that made this happen. Moreover, the COVID-19 crisis has added more to the IT brainstorming across organizations, globally. Increasing cloud adoption has become imperative than ever, and eventually, information security is drawing more attention. Naturally, Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) are in the front line of this discussion. Considering the current scenario, CIOs are thinking about ways to optimize costs in the process of service delivery. CISOs are keen about upgrading organizational security posture, considering the…
It’s been revealed that a misconfigured cloud server at global cosmetics brand Avon was recently discovered leaking 19 million records including personal information and technical logs.