Websites are losing the fight against bot attacks
The discovery that 95% of advanced bot attacks go undetected points to a weakness in current detection and mitigation strategies. This suggests that while some…
Month: October 2024
237,000+ Customers’ Personal Data Exposed
A data breach has impacted more than 237,000 Comcast customers, exposing their personal information such as names, addresses, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and…
Cyberattack on American Water Shuts Down Customer Portal, Halts Billing
American Water faces a cyberattack, disrupting its customer portal and billing operations. The company assures that water services remain unaffected while cybersecurity experts manage the…
New Whitepaper Reveals Why Managed File Transfer Technology Is Essential to Your Data Migration Strategy – Partner Content
According to new research by TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group, 87% of surveyed IT decision-makers believe that their application and data environments will become distributed across…
LEGO’s website hacked to push cryptocurrency scam
On Friday night, cryptocurrency scammers briefly hacked the LEGO website to promote a fake Lego token that could be purchased with Ethereum. During the breach,…
Labour sets up new office to coordinate tech innovation regs
Ahead of next week’s International Investment Summit, the government has announced the formation of the Regulatory Innovation Office (RIO), which it hopes will help to…
MoneyGram confirms hackers stole customer data in cyberattack
MoneyGram has confirmed that hackers stole customers’ personal information and transaction data in a September cyberattack that caused a five-day outage. The company first detected…
ADT discloses second breach in 2 months, hacked via stolen credentials
Home and small business security company ADT disclosed it suffered a breach after threat actors gained access to its systems using stolen credentials and exfiltrated employee…
Ukrainian pleads guilty to operating Raccoon Stealer malware
Ukrainian national Mark Sokolovsky has pleaded guilty to his involvement in the Raccoon Stealer malware cybercrime operation. Sokolovsky and his conspirators distributed Raccoon Stealer under a MaaS…
Vantage Data Centers nabs long-time Equinix exec – Training & Development
Vantage Data Centers has tapped long-time Australian and regional Equinix executive Jeremy Deutsch to lead its growing Asia Pacific operations. Jeremy Deutsch (Image credit: Jeremy…
Word deletes some documents instead of saving them
Microsoft warned users of a new known issue that may cause Word for Windows to delete some documents instead of saving them. As the company…
Okta Fixes Critical Vulnerability Allowing Sign-On Policy Bypass
Okta fixed a vulnerability in its Classic product that allowed attackers to bypass sign-on policies. Exploitation required valid credentials and the use of an “unknown”…