Attacks & Breaches
South African bank to replace 12m cards after employees stole the master key
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The Sunday Times of South Africa, which revealed the story, said the incident took place in December 2018 when someone printed the bank's master key...
“Thunderspy” Attack Impacts Millions of Apple, Windows, Linux Machines
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Björn Ruytenberg, a researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology, discovered a security flaw in Intel's Thunderbolt ports, common to many laptops produced before 2019.
"If your computer...
Hackers Threaten to Reveal “Dirty Laundry” on Donald Trump
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Attorney Allen Grubman — the most prominent entertainment attorney in the world, whose firm represents stars including Lady Gaga, Madonna, Mariah Carey, U2, Bruce...
Law Firm Representing Madonna, Lady Gaga and Others Suffer Data Breach
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Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks, a large media and entertainment law firm, appear to have suffered a data breach following a cyberattack which results...
Unacademy Hacked, 22Mil User Information for Sale
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Unacademy is one of the largest online learning platforms in India. According to security firm Cyble Inc, a hacker is offering the user database...
Critical Vulnerability Gives Remote Command Execution as Root!
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Two critical vulnerabilities in the software of the open-source Salt project have been awarded the highest possible CVSS score of 10!
Security Company F-Secure warned...
Sophos XG Firewall Hacked. Hotfix Available
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Hackers were spotted exploiting a vulnerability on Sophos XG firewalls which lead to the abuse of the firewall configuration, exposing information such as usernames...
40 Million(!) Class Action Complaint for Personal Data Disclosure
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Optus is the second largest telecommunications company in Australia and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Singaporean company Singtel.
Maurice Blackburn Lawyers has launched a class action complaint against Optus...
160,000 Nintendo Player Accounts Hacked
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WHAT KIND OF DATA WERE EXPOSED?
Recently a data breach of Nintendo systems exposed data of 160,000 people. The hackers exploited a weakness in the...
iPhones Crashing From Simple Text Messages
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The latest Apple mobile OS version iOS 13.4.1 has a text bomb bug that forces the device (Mac, Apple Watch, iPhone, or iPad) to...
Warning to Apple Users! Possible Device Hack by Just Sending Email
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TWO CRITICAL FLAWS
According to cybersecurity researchers at ZecOps, bugs were found in the Apple mail app which can allow RCE (Remote Code Execution), due...
Personal Data of 267 Million Users Sold by Hackers
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Hackers have sold personal data from 267 Million Facebook users causing another major reputation blow on the tech giant. The data included email addresses,...
