Gloucester City Council Incurs £1.1 Million Cost in Ransomware Recovery
Gloucester City Council, situated in England’s West Midlands, incurred over £1.1 million ($1.39 million) in expenses to recover from a…
2023
All Customer Support System Users Exposed in The Okta Data Breach
The ongoing Okta data breach investigation brings new details to light. The company announced that hackers have accessed data from…
Microsoft Stopped Developing Defender Application Guard for Office
Microsoft stopped actively developing Defender Application Guard for Office and the Windows Security Isolation APIs. This means they also might…
The Internet Enabled Mass Surveillance. AI Will Enable Mass Spying.
Spying and surveillance are different but related things. If I hired a private detective to spy on you, that detective…
The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 27 November – 3 December 2023
Welcome to this week’s round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. At the end of each month, these…
Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in November 2023 – 519,111,354 Records Breached
IT Governance’s research has found the following for November 2023: The number of incidents is particularly high this month, partly…
DNA Double-Helix Hacker Heist: A Wake-Up Call for Cybersecurity Vigilance
A recent breach at 23andme resulted in the theft of immutable and irreplaceable data - our DNA! Companies with such…
Google fixed critical zero-click RCE in Android
Google fixed a critical zero-click RCE vulnerability (CVE-2023-40088) with the release of the December 2023 Android security updates. Google December…
Bolstering API Security: Introducing Wallarm’s API Attack Surface Management (AASM)
In the fast-paced digital world, think of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) as the threads that stitch together the fabric of…
New P2PInfect bot targets routers and IoT devices
Cybersecurity researchers discovered a new variant of the P2PInfect botnet that targets routers and IoT devices. Researchers at Cado Security…