Employee onboarding is a busy time for IT teams. New starters need devices, accounts, access permissions, and passwords, all delivered within a tight timeframe.
That usually means sharing a temporary “first-day” password so employees can access systems for the first time. The issue is that these passwords don’t always stay temporary. They may be sent over email or SMS, reused across accounts,
Evoke allegedly used Google ads and telemarketing to pretend to be other clinics; court order permanently bans them from similar deceptive conduct On June 10, DataBreaches sent Evoke Wellness in Hilliard, Ohio an inquiry about an insider-wrongdoing breach reported in Ohio media but not mentioned on their website. There has been no reply as of…
Cisco has released fresh patches to address what it described as a “critical” security vulnerability impacting multiple Unified Communications (CM) products and Webex Calling Dedicated Instance that it has been actively exploited as a zero-day in the wild. The vulnerability, CVE-2026-20045 (CVSS score: 8.2), could permit an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on…
Google Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) have disclosed that they are tracking a new cluster of activity possibly linked to a financially motivated threat actor known as Cl0p. The malicious activity involves sending extortion emails to executives at various organizations and claiming to have stolen sensitive data from their Oracle E-Business Suite. “This…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security vulnerability in Ollama that, if successfully exploited, could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to leak its entire process memory. The out-of-bounds read flaw, which likely impacts over 300,000 servers globally, is tracked as CVE-2026-7482 (CVSS score: 9.1). It has been codenamed Bleeding Llama by Cyera. Ollama is a
Rural Radio reports: A measure that would raise the bar for filing class-action lawsuits in state courts against private entities that suffer a cybersecurity breach has received first round approval in the Nebraska Legislature. Lawmakers spent a considerable amount of floor debate Tuesday and today discussing LB 241, which would require willful, wanton, or gross…
As AI tools become more accessible, employees are adopting them without formal approval from IT and security teams. While these tools may boost productivity, automate tasks, or fill gaps in existing workflows, they also operate outside the visibility of security teams, bypassing controls and creating new blind spots in what is known as shadow AI. While similar to…
