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North Korea-linked 3CX Attack Hit Key Infrastructure: Symantec
- Saturday, 29 April 2023
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A recent attack by North Korea-linked hacker group Lazarus on video-calling software provider 3CX had more victims than previously known, including two infrastructure organizations, according to Symantec. So reports Dark Reading.
Read more...Russian Hackers Exploit Old Cisco Routers, Securities Agencies Say
- Saturday, 29 April 2023
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Western security agencies have warned that APT28, the hacking unit with Russia’s GRI military intelligence agency, has been using malware to exploit a vulnerability in Cisco routers that was patched in 2017. So reports CSO.
Read more...Washington Enacts State Law On Cybersecurity
- Saturday, 29 April 2023
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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has signed Senate Bill 5518, which forms a new Cybersecurity Advisory Committee as a subpanel of the state’s Emergency Management Council. So reports KIRO 7 News.
Read more...TikTok Can Now Determine What Floor A User Is On, Cyber Firm Claims
- Saturday, 29 April 2023
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Internet 2.0, an Australian-U.S. cybersecurity company whose research last year prompted some western authorities to ban TikTok from government-issued devices, has claimed the social video company’s updated code now seeks a user’s altitude data. So reports The Guardian.
Read more...Suspected Pentagon Leaker Nabbed After Searching Word 'Leak'
- Sunday, 23 April 2023
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Federal law enforcement officials have arrested and charged Jack Texeira, a 21-year-old guardsman in the U.S. Air Force National Guard, over a leak of military documents that disclosed secrets about Russia’s war against Ukraine as well as U.S. spying on allied nations.
Read more...Fortra Breach Hits Four Stanford Hospitals
- Sunday, 23 April 2023
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Stanford has confirmed that patients at four of the university’s hospitals have had their protected health information exposed after a security breach at cybersecurity firm Fortra affected the hospitals’ mental health service vendor, Brightline. So reports Becker’s Health IT.
Read more...Q1 Cybersecurity Venture Funding Tumbles 58% from 2022
- Sunday, 23 April 2023
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Crunchbase research has found that venture capital funding to cybersecurity firms totaled nearly $2.7 billion in the first quarter of 2023, a precipitous 58% decline from the same period a year ago. So reports Cybersecurity Dive.
Read more...Okta Faces Investor Suit Over Data Breach
- Sunday, 23 April 2023
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Identity and access management provider Okta has been hit with a proposed shareholder class action lawsuit that claims the company withheld information about a January 2022 data breach. So reports Law360.
Read more...Apple TV Suffers Brief Outage for Thousands of Viewers
- Sunday, 23 April 2023
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Apple TV has restored service after an April 16 outage that lasted a few hours for thousands of U.S. users, says outage tracker Downdetector.com, an outage tracker. So reports Reuters.
Read more...Human Error Caused D.C. Health Data Breach: Official
- Sunday, 23 April 2023
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A leading official announced that a “human mistake” was to blame in a recent data breach of Washington, D.C.’s health insurance exchange that affected thousands of people. So reports the Associated Press.
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