It has been reported that GoDaddy suffered a data breach in October and has notified the Californian authorities, stating that an unauthorised individual was able to access SSH accounts used in its hosting environment. “We have no evidence that any files were added or modified on your account,” the company said while omitting evidence that files could have been viewed and infiltrated. “The unauthorized individual has been blocked from our systems, and we continue to investigate potential impact across our environment.” GoDaddy said the breach did not impact the “main GoDaddy.com customer account” and that any information within that account was not…
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As global economies continue in the fight against COVID-19, millions of people around the world are working from home to slow the spread of the disease. This new WFH imperative has challenged many IT organisations and will continue to impact how we enable business operations for months and years ahead. In most disaster recovery scenarios, global companies only need enough capacity for 50% of the workforce to operate remotely. Many ‘regular’ disasters are regional – earthquakes, hurricanes, or terrorist attacks, for example – so the prevailing thinking was it would be extremely unlikely that enough capacity would be required for…
Most people associate a cyber-attack with things like phishing, exploitation of software vulnerabilities, RDP hacks, and sketchy websites hosting malicious code. This isn’t a misconception, but black hats have plenty of lesser-known tactics up their sleeve. Would you expect a digital ambush when charging your smartphone via a USB power station in a public place? If the answer is “No,” then you are a potential target of juice jacking, a form of compromise that entails data theft through a hacked charging port. Even though the term sounds like fun, the concept behind it is a growingly serious issue for individuals…
F5 Labs assesses three years of Security Incident Response Team data Financial services organisations have experienced a significant increase in the number of authentication and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks over the past three years, according to new research from F5 Labs1. The opposite was true of web attacks, however, which were notably down during the same period. F5 Labs’ analysis, which examined customer security incident response (SIRT) data from 2017-2019, covered banks, credit unions, brokers, insurance, and the wide range of organisations that serve them, such as payment processors and financial Software as a Service (SaaS). “The financial services sector is…
As reported by Endgadget, earlier this year, Google revealed that all Nest accounts will require extra sign-in security starting this spring. For those who haven’t enabled phone—based two factor authentication or have migrated to a Google account yet, that means having to verify their identities via email-based authentication every time they log in. Now, the tech giant has announced that it will begin enforcing that extra security measure for its Nest products starting this month. Users will soon receive an email from [email protected] with a six digit code whenever they log in to verify that they truly own the account they’re trying to access. The only way users can…
It has been reported that Popular open-source blogging platform with more than 2 million installs confirms it has been hacked. Although most people tend to immediately think of WordPress when asked to name a blogging platform, it certainly isn’t the only player in town. The self-proclaimed “world’s most popular modern open-source publishing platform,” Ghost, includes big-name customers such as Mozilla, NASA, and DuckDuckGo among its 750,000 registered users, according to its website. In the last week alone, Ghost users, including writers, podcasters, and video creators, set up 6,920 new publications. It was also hacked yesterday, May 3.
Hostile states are attempting to hack British universities and scientific facilities to steal research related to Covid-19, including vaccine development, according to the Guardian. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said the proportion of such targeted cyber-attacks had increased, branding the criminal activity “reprehensible”. There are thought to be dozens of universities and institutions with biomedical capacity working on Covid-19 research, ranging from new diagnostic and antibody tests to experimental treatment. However, it is understood there have been no successful attacks on universities or research institutions to date.
President Trump on Friday issued an executive order declaring a national emergency over threats to the U.S. power system, taking steps to defend the grid against cyberattacks and foreign interference. The executive order bans the use of equipment for the power grid that was manufactured by a company under the control of a foreign adversary, or the buying of any equipment that poses a national security threat.
Tesla’s retrofitting service for media control units (MCU) and Autopilot hardware may not go far enough in protecting owners’ personal data. That’s according to white hat hacker GreenTheOnly, whom obtained four units of these Tesla computers off eBay and found the previous owners’ personal data still on them. Even more worryingly, though, Tesla have failed to notify customers that might be affected. https://twitter.com/greentheonly/status/1257051370563256331