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  • "Community Health Network Notifies 1.5M of Data Breach Stemming From Tracking Tech"

    Community Health Network, an Indiana-based integrated healthcare system, notified 1.5 million people about a data breach caused by the use of third-party tracking technologies from companies such as Facebook and Google. Facebook's parent company, Meta,…

  • "Virginia County Confirms Personal Information Stolen in Ransomware Attack"

    Southampton County in Virginia recently started informing individuals that their personal information might have been compromised in a ransomware attack.  The incident was identified in September when a threat actor accessed a server at Southampton…

  • "Ransomware Gang Takes Credit for Maple Leaf Foods Hack"

    The Black Basta ransomware group has recently taken credit for the recently disclosed attack on Canadian meat giant Maple Leaf Foods. The cybercriminals have made public several screenshots of technical documents, financial information, and other…

  • "Research Institute RISE Engages Ethical Hackers at New Cybersecurity Test Facility"

    RISE, a Swedish state-owned research institute, is in the pilot phase of establishing what it calls Europe's most advanced cybersecurity hub for vehicles, which has been planned since 2021. The RISE Cyber Test Lab for Automotive facilitates vehicle…

  • "New 'Faraday Cage' Research Facility to Help Combat Digital Crime"

    Specific computer forensic testing procedures for electronic systems require using an isolated environment free of electromagnetic interference, known as a "Faraday Cage." Therefore, a team of digital forensics researchers at the University of…

  • "Experts Find 16,000+ Scam FIFA World Cup Domains"

    Security researchers at Group-IB have warned of a deluge of phishing scams, fake apps, and malicious merchandising sites spoofing the branding of the FIFA World Cup in Qatar to target football fans.  The researchers tracked over 16,000 scam domains…

  • "Why Microsegmentation is Critical for Securing CI/CD"

    Cloud-native technology, microservices architectures, and DevOps or DevSecOps teams working in close collaboration throughout the development life cycle represent modern development environments. At the heart of this environment, the Continuous…

  • "Police Shutter 13,000 Sites in Piracy Crackdown"

    According to Europol, a wide-ranging effort to disrupt counterfeiting and online piracy across the EU resulted in the closure of 12,526 websites hosting illegal content.  As of Cyber Monday, police disconnected 32 servers used to distribute the…

  • "Irish Data Protection Commission Fines Meta Over 2021 Data-Scraping Leak"

    The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Meta $275.5 million for a data leak suffered by Facebook in 2021 that exposed the data of millions of Facebook users. Meta is also subject to a number of corrective measures imposed by the DPC. On April 3…

  • "Pre-auth RCE in Oracle Fusion Middleware Exploited in the Wild (CVE-2021-35587)"

    The US Homeland Security Department's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has confirmed that a pre-authentication Remote Code Execution (RCE) flaw in Oracle Access Manager (OAM), tracked as CVE-2021-35587, which was fixed in January…

  • "Cyber-Threat Group Targets Critical RCE Vulnerability in 'Bleed You' Campaign"

    A campaign called "Bleed You" is attempting to exploit a known Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in Windows Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Protocol Extensions, and over 1,000 systems are unpatched and vulnerable. According to a new report from…

  • "Acer Fixes UEFI Bugs That Can Be Used to Disable Secure Boot"

    Acer has patched a critical vulnerability affecting several laptop models that could allow local attackers to disable Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Secure Boot on targeted systems. The Secure Boot security feature thwarts untrusted…