The U.K. government is facing criticism for allowing betting firms to access the Department for Education (DfE) database, called the Learning Record Service, which contained personal data of 28 million children. The database stores information on students aged 14...
Cybersecurity solutions provider Trend Micro revealed the results of its six-month operational technology (OT) honeypot, which was a look-alike of a real industrial factory. The aim of creating an OT honeypot was to discover potential threat actors that could...
Cybersecurity researchers have observed a recent trend of Ursnif malware spam specifically targeting German nationals using a spam email message written in German language. Once the target system is compromised, Ursnif steals system information and attempts to steal banking...
Kaspersky, in its report, revealed that India saw a decline in the number of cyberattacks in 2019. It stated that 38.8 percent of Kaspersky users in India were attacked at least once by web-based attacks in 2019, which is...
The risk to health care organizations from a third-party vendor breach is clear—through August of 2019 alone, there have been 33 breaches by a business associate/vendor totaling over 22.5 million records. That’s one breach per week attributed to a...
Microsoft has admitted to a security blunder of misconfiguring a customer service and support database that exposed 14 years of customer service and support data dating back to 2005, accessible to anyone with a web browser requiring no authentication...
Researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar from security firm vpnMentor discovered an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket on December 24, 2019, that exposed sensitive data of medical cannabis users and multiple cannabis dispensaries across the United States.
The researchers stated the...
A joint research by Criminal Law Reform Now Network (CLRNN), scholars from Birmingham and Cambridge universities stated that the U.K.’s Computer Misuse Act 1990 (CMA) is 30 years old and needs an update, as it has jeopardized the country’s...
A duo from East London’s Dagenham district, Oluwaseun Ajayi (39 years) and Inga Irbe (49 years), both residents of Orchard Road, have been convicted for committing more than 700 bank and mobile accounts frauds. The Croydon Crown Court’s sentencing...
Japanese electronics manufacturer Mitsubishi Electric recently confirmed that it was hit by a cyberattack in June 2019. The Tokyo-based firm released a notice detailing the data leak in the wake of two news stories published recently by Asahi Shimbun...
