Vice Media filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the Court for the Southern District of New York on Monday, becoming the latest digital media giant to throw in the towel after years of economic struggles.
A former Ubiquiti employee has been sentenced to six years in jail for the theft of confidential data and extorting company for ransom. NICKOLAS SHARP, a former Ubiquiti employee was sentenced today to six years in prison. In December 2020, SHARP stole gigabytes of data from the company, then he posed as an anonymous hacker that was […]
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It’s a beautiful, 60-degree day, the sky a cloudless blue. Spunn Road is lined by stately houses looking down on the historic main street of Jackson, California, the high peaks of the Sierra Nevada mountains visible in the distance. There’s a slight bend in the road—and there it is. A chain-link fence topped with…
While this article aims to define what is endpoint privilege management, I will first begin to explain the circumstances of this process. Within any organization, privileges are usually split between two levels of hierarchy: standard users and administrators. The highest level of privilege is often provided to Domain Administrators who have the ability to modify […]
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One of the most famous logic puzzles of all time involves a fork in the road, where one path leads to freedom and the other leads to your death. Each path has a guard, and one of them always tells the truth and the other always lies, but you don’t know which is which. You get to ask one yes/no question to one guard to…
Micro-Star International—aka MSI—had its UEFI signing key stolen last month. This raises the possibility that the leaked key could push
Toyota Motor Corporation issued a notice on the company’s Japanese newsroom disclosing a data breach of ten years. A database misconfiguration in its cloud environment leads to exposing of the car-location data of 2,150,000 customers. Details from the Data Breach Notice The misconfiguration allowed unauthorized people to access the database without needing a password. The […]
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Companies with cyber insurance are more likely to get hit by ransomware, more likely to be attacked multiple times, and more likely to pay ransoms, according to a recent survey of IT decision makers.
Back in 2019, fewer than 20% of enterprises suffered repeat ransomware attacks, while during the pandemic, the percentage rose to around 30%. And it didn’t stop with the pandemic, with 38% of organizations surveyed in 2022 reporting two or more successful ransomware attacks, those that attackers were able to lock systems, encrypt data, or exfiltrate information to demand a ransom, according to Barracuda’s report conducted by Vanson Bourne.
The incident, confirmed on March 21, prompted a service outage that prevented
authorized users from accessing records for background checks, visa
applications, and other services.
It is unclear what specific personal data was exposed in the incident but “there
is
Threat actors have started exploiting a recently disclosed vulnerability in WordPress, within 24 hours of the proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit being published by the company, according to a blog by Akamai.
The high-severity vulnerability, CVE-2023-30777 that affects the WordPress Advanced Custom Fields plugin, was identified by a Patchstack researcher on May 2.
