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...
Special Olympics New York, a non-profit organization that helps provide coaching to competitive sportspersons with intellectual disabilities, reportedly faced a breach of its email server. Hackers leveraged the opportunity to launch an email phishing campaign targeting the registered donors...
Gal Zror, a security researcher discovered three critical RCE (Remote Code Execution) vulnerabilities in Ruckus Wireless routers that could allow malicious actors to bypass security layers and take control of the devices. Ruckus Networks is a provider of wired...
Brazil’s court has fined Facebook for the misuse of personal data belonging to nearly half a million Brazilians during political campaigns. According to reports, a fine of 6.6 million Reais (US$ 1.6 million) was issued by the Ministry of...
Microsoft announced that it has taken control of 50 domains operated by North Korean hacking group called “Thallium”. The tech giant stated that attackers used these domains to launch cyber-attacks on different locations including the United States, Japan, and...
By Chris Roberts, Chief Security Strategist, Attivo Networks
Around October or November, we throw the collective fortune darts at the nearest board, wall, or screen to work out how the following year’s going to be in our electronic world.
We’re the...
A class-action lawsuit has been filed against Wawa Stores in the wake of a massive financial data breach that was revealed by the company. The lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of...
The officials of the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) recently disclosed a Ryuk ransomware infection that took down the entire corporate IT network of a Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA) regulated facility for more than 30 hours. The authorities stated...
