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Personal information of 20 million BigBasket users is now available online for anyone to download and use BigBasket is one of most popular grocery delivery companies in India HIGHLIGHTS : BigBasket’s alleged database included personal details of affected users The database has been leaked by a hacker known as ShinyHunters BigBasket has not yet confirmed…

Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Suspicious Activity Detected; Investigation Continues Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • April 30, 2021     The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is investigating whether five government agencies may have been breached when attackers exploited vulnerabilities in Pulse Connect Secure VPN products, according to…

The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Attorney-General’s Department are not ‘cyber resilient’ and have overstated their implementation of the federal government’s mandatory strategies to mitigate cyber security incidents, an audit has found. Non-corporate commonwealth entities have been required to implement the Australian Signals Directorate’s (ASD) Top Four mitigation strategies since 2013,…

Critical Infrastructure Security , DDoS Protection , Security Operations Alleged Attack Targeted Vulnerable Government Web Servers Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • February 23, 2021     Russia is accused of recruiting Ukrainian servers to DDoS Ukraine. (Source: ISMG) Ukraine has accused Russia of turning Ukrainian government servers into a botnet for massive distributed denial-of-service attacks that…

3rd Party Risk Management , Endpoint Security , Governance & Risk Management Editors Address Exchange Hacks, Insider Threats and More Anna Delaney (annamadeline) • March 26, 2021     Clockwise, from top left: Nick Holland, Anna Delaney, Mathew Schwartz and Tom Field Four editors at Information Security Media Group discuss the…

The Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model is one of the many useful tools we can use to stop cybersecurity threats. This long-standing standard separates a network into seven layers, offering suggestions for protecting each of them. In this blog series, we’ll examine the layers one by one to understand this model. Each piece follows the same…