The National Healthcare Group (NHG), a group of public hospitals and polyclinics, was fined SG$6,000 (approximately US$4,452) for exposing sensitive data of 129 general practitioners. The issue came to light after one of the practitioners found a bug and...
Reuters from Kiev reported that the government job portal https://career.gov.ua/ published PII (Personally Identifiable Information) of Ukrainian Nationals, which included passport scans, and diploma and graduation certificates among other documents. These documents were submitted by citizens who registered on...
Researchers at Sophos, a U.K. based cybersecurity company, discovered a set of 25 fleeceware apps on Play Store having more than 600 million installs. Some of these apps have close to 100 million installs, which can rival even the...
The device-to-cloud cybersecurity firm, McAfee, appointed Peter Leav as the new Chief Executive Officer, effective from February 3, 2020.
Leav had previously served as President and CEO of BMC Software. He holds more than 20 years of executive leadership experience...
Atlanta-based consumer credit reporting agency Equifax has agreed to pay US$380.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit, brought forward by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), relating to a 2017 data breach that leaked a massive amount of information...
The authorities of the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice seized the domain “weleakinfo.com” for selling sensitive information that was hacked from other sources for the past three years.
According to the official notice, published by the U.S. Attorney...
Police Scotland has geared up for the first phase roll-out of Digital Triage Devices, known as Cyber Kiosks, on January 20, 2020. These Cyber Kiosks are desktop computers configured with a special software, and are approved by Police Scotland’s...
Security researchers from Kaspersky discovered thousands of attack notifications on popular banks in the sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region. Researchers opined that Russian speaking hacking group Silence is likely behind these attacks. It’s said that the hacker group appears to...
Western Australia-based P&N Bank informed its customers of a data leak that happened on December 12, 2019, which exposed customers’ personally identifiable information (PII) and sensitive account information.
In an official notice, the financial services provider stated that the information...
Microsoft’s first Patch Tuesday of 2020 saw a total of 49 CVEs (bugs) being fixed, however, the one that matters the most in the cybersecurity space is the Windows CryptoAPI Vulnerability tracked under CVE-2020-0601.
This Windows CryptoAPI spoofing vulnerability was...
