Thorin Klosowski, Bill Budington, Rindala Alajaji, Christian Romero, Lena Cohen, Hayley Tsukayama, and Cooper Quintin write: Another year has come and gone, and with it, thousands of data breaches that affect millions of people. The question these days is less, Is my information in a data breach this year? and more How many data breaches had my information…
It’s been a while since we’ve seen one of these types of reports, and yet….. Imani Williams reports: Thousands of medical records containing sensitive patient information were discovered in a Memphis storage unit that went up for auction after the owner failed to pay rent for three months. Jason Lederfine, who buys storage units as……
Brendan Shykora reports: B.C.’s Interior Health Authority (IH) has been served a class-action lawsuit over a data breach in 2009 that allegedly exposed thousands of employees’ sensitive information, which ended up sold on the dark web. Filed in B.C. Supreme Court Thursday, May 22, the lawsuit claims the breach compromised the personal information of employees who worked for IH between…
The government’s Rewards for Justice program has announced a $10 million reward for information on Maxim Alexandrovich Rudometov (Максим Александрович Рудомётов), born in 1999 in the Luhansk region of Ukraine. Rudometov allegedly developed and has sold the infostealer malware known as RedLine. “Rudometov has regularly accessed and managed the technical infrastructure of RedLine , is…
Matthew Gault reports: Many trains in the U.S. are vulnerable to a hack that can remotely lock a train’s brakes, according to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the researcher who discovered the vulnerability. The railroad industry has known about the vulnerability for more than a decade but only recently began to fix it….
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an updated version of a known Apple macOS malware called XCSSET that has been observed in limited attacks. “This new variant of XCSSET brings key changes related to browser targeting, clipboard hijacking, and persistence mechanisms,” the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said in a Thursday report. “It employs sophisticated encryption and obfuscation
When Technology Resets the Playing Field In 2015 I founded a cybersecurity testing software company with the belief that automated penetration testing was not only possible, but necessary. At the time, the idea was often met with skepticism, but today, with 1200+ of enterprise customers and thousands of users, that vision has proven itself. But…
