Category: Industry News
News and information from the Advent IM team.
Parler Sues Amazon Web Services After Hosting Takedown
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Parler has sued Amazon Web Services (AWS), after the cloud platform took down the right wing alternative to Twitter. Read via Silicon.
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Third malware strain discovered in SolarWinds supply chain attack
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
CrowdStrike, one of the two security firms formally investigating the hack, sheds some light on how hackers compromised the SolarWinds Orion app build process. Read via ZDNet.
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New Zealand Reserve Bank suffers data breach via hacked storage partner
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand, known as Te Pūtea Matua, has suffered a data breach after threat actors hacked a third-party hosting partner. Read via Bleeping Computer.
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Russia Behind SolarWinds Hack – US Intelligence
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Russia was the likely culprit of the damaging SolarWinds supply chain compromise, multiple US intelligence agencies declare Read via Silicon.
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Hackney council files including alleged passport documents leaked online after cyber attack
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
The attack has coincided with the pandemic to severely disrupt housing services in the East London council. Read via Sky News.
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British Airways Plans £3bn Breach Settlement
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
The UK’s flag-carrier airline is planning to begin settlement discussions that could see customers who became the victims of a data breach receive a compensation payout of up to £3bn. Read via InfoSecurityMag.
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Microsoft Says SolarWinds Hackers Viewed Its Source Code
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Microsoft says SolarWinds hacking group penetrated its internal systems and viewed source code, but downplays security threat Read via Silicon.
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T-Mobile data breach sees phone numbers and call records leaked online
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
US telecom’s cybersecurity team discovered malicious, unauthorized access to its systems Read via Tech Radar.
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UK firm NOW: Pensions tells some customers a ‘service partner’ leaked their data all over ‘public software forum’
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Workplace pension provider NOW: Pensions has emailed a number of UK customers to warn about a data leakage caused by contractor error. Read via The Register.
Read MoreUS nuclear weapons agency breached in cyber attack
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
CISA has warned about the difficulty of completely ridding the government network of malware. Read story via Dev Kundaliya in Computing
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