Pearson Slammed for Breach – Wasn’t Just ‘Data Exposure’

Pearson Slammed for Breach – Wasn’t Just ‘Data Exposure’

Breach Notification , Governance & Risk Management , Incident & Breach Response Firm Pays $1 Million Settlement After Regulator Says It Misled Investors and Victims Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • August 17, 2021     When is a data exposure not just a data exposure? See Also: Forrester Consulting: Strained Relationship Between Security and IT…

CVE-2021-34645 – Alert Detail – Security Database

CVE-2021-34645 – Alert Detail – Security Database

Executive Summary Informations Name CVE-2021-34645 First vendor Publication 2021-08-19 Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2021-08-19 Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3 Cvss vector : N/A Overall CVSS Score NA Base Score NA Environmental Score NA impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA Exploitabality Sub Score NA   Calculate full CVSS 3.0 Vectors scores Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2 Cvss…

HolesWarm crypto malware hits unpatched Linux, Windows servers

HolesWarm crypto malware hits unpatched Linux, Windows servers

HolesWarm crypto malware hits unpatched Linux, Windows servers | IT Security News Android App Android App with push notifications Sponsors Endpoint Cybersecurity www.endpoint-cybersecurity.com – Consulting in building your security products– Employee awareness training– Security tests for applications and pentesting… and more. Daily Summary Categories CategoriesSelect Category(ISC)2 Blog  (323)(ISC)2 Blog infosec  (13)(ISC)² Blog  (409)2020-12-08 – Files for an ISC…

Liquid cryptocurency exchange loses over $90 million following hack

Liquid cryptocurency exchange loses over $90 million following hack

Japan-based cryptocurrency exchange Liquid has suspended deposits and withdrawals after attackers have compromised its warm wallets. Liquid is one of the largest cryptocurrency-fiat exchange platforms worldwide (based on daily traded spot volume). The exchange has more than 800,000 customers from over 100 countries and says that it reached a $1.1B+ daily trade volume this year….

Unpatched Fortinet Bug Would Allow Remote Attackers To Execute Arbitrary Commands

Unpatched Fortinet Bug Would Allow Remote Attackers To Execute Arbitrary Commands

Unpatched Fortinet Bug Would Allow Remote Attackers To Execute Arbitrary Commands | IT Security News Android App Android App with push notifications Sponsors Endpoint Cybersecurity www.endpoint-cybersecurity.com – Consulting in building your security products– Employee awareness training– Security tests for applications and pentesting… and more. Daily Summary Categories CategoriesSelect Category(ISC)2 Blog  (323)(ISC)2 Blog infosec  (13)(ISC)² Blog  (409)2020-12-08 – Files…

Attackers Stole 8.6 Million Customers’ Details

Attackers Stole 8.6 Million Customers’ Details

Breach Notification , Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service 40 Million Credit Applications Also Stolen; Social Security Numbers Exposed Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • August 18, 2021     T-Mobile’s store in Times Square, New York (Photo: T-Mobile) T-Mobile USA has confirmed that its systems were breached and that investigators have found that details for 8.6 million…

Nigerian Gang Asks for Insider Help to Plant Ransomware

Nigerian Gang Asks for Insider Help to Plant Ransomware

Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management , Insider Threat Researchers Learn Details During a Telegram Chat With an Attacker Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • August 19, 2021     Ransom demand screen provided by the attacker to Abnormal Security A Nigeria-based ransomware gang is conducting a campaign that dangles a $1 million bribe…

US Census Bureau Criticized for Handling of Breach

US Census Bureau Criticized for Handling of Breach

Governance & Risk Management , Government , Incident & Breach Response OIG Report: Bureau Did Not Properly Maintain Security Logs of Incident Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • August 19, 2021     Photo: U.S. Census Bureau Following a breach of some of its servers in January 2020, the U.S. Census Bureau failed to follow standard cybersecurity…

‘Don’t forget the 500,000 internally displaced Afghans’ – UNCHR

‘Don’t forget the 500,000 internally displaced Afghans’ – UNCHR

While there has been much attention on Afghans being evacuated at Kabul airport, it was important to remember there were more than 500,000 internally displaced people in the country, the UN refugee agency’s representative to Afghanistan has said. Caroline Van Buren told BBC World News that the country was facing a humanitarian crisis. Failure to…

Afghanistan: Hard lessons to be learned for Nato, says Stoltenberg

Afghanistan: Hard lessons to be learned for Nato, says Stoltenberg

There are some hard and difficult lessons to be learned about the recent events in Afghanistan, Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said. It was a tragedy that the Afghan security forces collapsed so quickly, Mr Stoltenberg told BBC World News. He blamed a lack of leadership and logistics from the Afghan government, rather than…