Category: Industry News
News and information from the Advent IM team.
UK Councils and Hospitals Vulnerable to Cyber Hackers
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
An investigation into cybersecurity at UK public services revealed a large disparity in defense budgets, hundreds of website vulnerabilities and staff email addresses and passwords at one council posted in full online. Read via Information Security Magazine
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Hacker offers to sell Shanghai police database holding details on one billion Chinese residents
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
A hacker is offering to sell a gigantic Shanghai police database that he says contains sensitive information on around one billion Chinese residents – including their names, addresses, birthdates, and crime and case reports. Read via Sky News
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NFT giant OpenSea reports major email data breach
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
A staff member at Customer.io, an email vendor contracted by OpenSea, misused their employee access to download and share email addresses of OpenSea’s users and newsletter subscribers with an unauthorized external party, the world’s largest NFT marketplace said Wednesday night. Reasd via Tech Crunch
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Google account sign-up process targeted with GDPR complaints
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Consumer rights groups in Europe have filed a new series of privacy complaints against Google — accusing the advertising giant of deceptive design around the account creation process that they say steers users into agreeing to extensive and invasive processing of their data. Read via Tech Crunch
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AMD investigating alleged theft of 450 GB of data
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is investigating a potential data breach after a hacking group claimed to have stolen 450 gigabytes of data from the chipmaker. Read via Silicon Angle
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Japanese city worker loses USB containing personal details of every resident
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Contractor said he lost the device – storing names, addresses, dates of birth and tax details of 460,000 people – after an alcohol-fuelled night out Read via Guardian
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Fake copyright infringement emails install LockBit ransomware
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
LockBit ransomware affiliates are using an interesting trick to get people into infecting their devices by disguising their malware as copyright claims.
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Security flaws in internet-connected hot tubs exposed owners’ personal data
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
A security researcher found vulnerabilities in Jacuzzi’s SmartTub interface that allowed access to the personal data of every hot tub owner. Read via Yahoo
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Yodel delivery service disrupted by cyber incident
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Delivery company Yodel confirmed it had experienced a cyber incident, which researchers believe could be a ransomware attack, and is working to get systems fully running again Read via Computer Weekly
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Ex-Amazon worker found guilty in Capital One breach
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Paige Thompson, a 36-year-old former Amazon employee, has been convicted for seven federal crimes by the US District Court in Seattle, all originating from a massive breach at Capital One that affected over 100 million people. Read via Computing.co.uk
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