Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management Security Experts Size Up Impact of US Rush to Leave Afghanistan Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • August 17, 2021 It’s unlikely that the U.S. abandoning its embassy and other facilities in Afghanistan poses cyber risks, thanks to the emergency planning…
It seems like we can’t go a week without hearing about another massive security breach at a mega-corporation. This week’s shocker comes courtesy of T-Mobile, at least according to one self-reported hacker claiming to sell the company’s customer data. T-Mobile says it’s “investigating” the possible theft of data from over 100 million people. If true,…
Endpoint Security , Internet of Things Security Researchers: Kalay Protocol Flaw Could Affect Millions of Connected Devices Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • August 17, 2021 Example of how an attacker could exploit a vulnerability in ThroughTek’s Kalay protocol (Source: FireEye) FireEye researchers and the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency are warning about a…
Globally, 90 per cent of enterprises among those surveyed are yet to achieve their digital-first goals with 49 per cent admitting that cyber security is the top-most priority for their business, a report showed on Monday. While 45 per cent of enterprises lost productivity during the crisis due to problems of connectivity, 41 per cent…
Afghanistan has gone through a lot of transformation in the last 20 years and is a different country to the one the Taliban left in 2001, the author of The Kite Runner has said. Khaled Hosseini told BBC World News that his one sliver of hope was that the Taliban would realise the country had…
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: Live Webinar | Password Management: Securing Hybrid Work…
President Ashraf Ghani was “gutless” to flee Afghanistan as the Taliban advanced to take power, the former Afghan MP Elay Ershad has said. She told BBC World News: “He left his people behind and he left his country behind. He could have stayed. I am so angry I don’t have words to explain it.” Mr…
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Global consulting firm Accenture, which offers cybersecurity services, has been hit by a cyber-attack. ‘LockBit’, a group of ransomware hackers that has recently carried out a series of attacks, has taken credit for the incident. On Wednesday the 11th August, global consultancy and technology giant Accenture was struck by a cyber-attack, during which more than…
Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Attackers Claim They Stole 36 Million Unique Customer Records Jeremy Kirk (jeremy_kirk) • August 17, 2021 T-Mobile’s Times Square store in New York City (Photo: T-Mobile) T-Mobile USA on Monday confirmed that its computer systems were illegally accessed, following reports of an apparent intrusion. But the Bellevue,…
