Active Network, a provider of web-based school accounting software for K-12 schools and districts, recently disclosed a critical security breach.
According to official notice, unknown intruders gained access to Active Network’s Blue Bear platform, a software that facilitates administration and...
The Austrian Foreign Ministry sounded the alarm bells of an ongoing “serious cyber-attack” that started in the late hours of Saturday January 4, 2019. Considering the signatures and the pattern of the attack, experts suggest this cyber-attack could possibly...
By Rudra Srinivas
Most people in India have never accessed the Internet through a computer. In fact, their encounter with the Internet is only through smartphones. As India’s consumers lap up Internet services, social media and other apps, they gladly...
Internet of Things (IoT) may enhance our connected lifestyle, but it has also created new attack vectors for hackers. Several security pros cautioned earlier that IoT devices have become a primary target for cybercriminals. It seems security issues with...
Landry's, an American multi-brand dining, hospitality, entertainment, and gaming corporation, recently disclosed a point-of-sale (POS) malware attack that stole the company’s payment card data from its order-entry system. The security incident affected around 63 Landry’s restaurants and bar brands.
Landry’s...
New Year’s New Law – California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) came into effect from January 1, 2020. Mozilla was one of the first company to acknowledge and back such a law as it has always maintained that consumer data...
VMware, a provider of enterprise software, recently announced that it has completed the acquisition of cloud-native platform provider Pivotal Software in a deal worth US$ 2.7 billion.
The latest acquisition integrates Pivotal’s developer-centric offerings with VMware’s upstream Kubernetes run-time infrastructure...
London-based forex exchange company–Travelex, has been hit by a cyber-attack on New Year’s Eve forcing the exchange to suspend all online services and its official website immediately to limit the damages.
Travelex, a major foreign currency exchange company provides online...
Security authorities at Starbucks left an API (Application Programming Interface) key online without password protection, that could be used by attackers to access internal systems and manipulate the list of authorized users.
The issue came to light after an Indian...
Richard Liriano, a former IT employee of a New York City-area hospital pled guilty of a computer fraud. He used a “keylogger” on dozens of his coworkers’ computers to obtain usernames and passwords of their personal email and other...
