European Commission Suffers Major Security Incident

More than 533 million Facebook users had their personal information posted to a public hacker forum, a move that is raising concerns about an uptick in cybercrime leveraging the credentials. The publicly released Facebook user data is believed to be part of a 2019 “Add Friend” Facebook security bug exploited by hackers at the time.

Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management Cybereason’s Sam Curry Shares Insights on the Latest Developments Anna Delaney (annamadeline) • July 19, 2021     Sam Curry, CSO, Cybereason The U.S and its allies formally accusing China of cyberattacks on Microsoft Exchange servers…

On the Friday heading into Memorial Day weekend this year, it was meat processing giant JBS. On the Friday before the Fourth of July, it was IT management software company Kaseya and, by extension, over a thousand businesses of varying size. It remains to be seen whether Labor Day will see a high-profile ransomware meltdown…

SolarWinds told Congress that using the password ‘solarwinds123’ was an intern’s mistake. A key researcher told Insider the log-in information was posted publicly on GitHub for years. Cybersecurity experts say the issue appears to represent more than an intern’s weak password.  Visit the Business section of Insider for more stories. Two SolarWinds CEOs told the…

The United States is launching three new research programs designed to protect America’s critical energy infrastructure systems. The Department of Energy released information on the projects earlier this week, which will be spearheaded by the department’s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response. The programs will aim to protect the US energy system from…

Endpoint Security , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Ransomware In Wake of Colonial Pipeline Attack, Ransomware as Unrestrained as Ever, Experts Say Jeremy Kirk (jeremy_kirk) • June 2, 2021     JBS’s facility in Greeley, Colorado. (Photo: Mizzou CAFNR via Flickr/CC) The White House says it has put Russia on notice over the ransomware attack…