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French Hospitals Cut Internet Connection After Data Raid
PRIVACY PRIVACY Attackers try to extort healthcare group online Read More
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Ransomware attack attempted to destabilise Costa Rica, says outgoing president
PRIVACY PRIVACY Costa Rica’s outgoing president, Carlos Alvarado Quesada, has said that a ransomware attack on the government’s computer systems was an attempt to destabilise the country as it transitions to a new administration. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Read More
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Bored Ape Yacht Club Customers Lose $3m in NFT Scam
PRIVACY PRIVACY Seller’s Instagram account was hijacked by fraudsters Read More
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Akamai’s new Hijacking Protector aims to block browser redirection
PRIVACY PRIVACY Aiming to reduce affiliate fraud and mitigate privacy risks, web and internet security company Akamai has released Audience Hijacking Protector, a cloud-based solution designed to minimize in-browser marketing frauds by blocking unwanted redirections like unauthorized ads and pop-ups. Promising protection from possible revenue loss and disrupted customer experiences, the new hijacking protector, generally…
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Kansas Hospital Discloses Data Breach
PRIVACY PRIVACY Email accounts compromised for nearly a year in breach impacting 52,224 people Read More
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Costa Rica Refuses to Pay Cyber Ransom
PRIVACY PRIVACY No payment for gang who infected Costa Rican government computer systems with ransomware Read More
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CSAM Creator Imprisoned for Life
PRIVACY PRIVACY Life sentence for Californian who made child sexual abuse material and shared it online Read More
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Ukraine’s postal service prints stamp mocking sunken Russian ship, and gets hit by DDoS attack
PRIVACY PRIVACY Someone isn’t happy that Ukraine’s post office has issued stamps mocking the sunken Russian navy flagship. Read More
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Test Your Hacking Skills: Join Tenable’s Annual CTF Competition!
PRIVACY PRIVACY Tenable launches the 2022 Capture the Flag event for the security community, running from June 9-13. Get ready to test your hacking skills, practice new ones and see how you measure up against others in the industry by joining this year’s annual Capture the Flag event. Each year, Tenable hosts its annual Capture…
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SMS Phishing Attacks are on the Rise
PRIVACY PRIVACY SMS phishing attacks — annoyingly called “smishing” — are becoming more common. I know that I have been receiving a lot of phishing SMS messages over the past few months. I am not getting the “Fedex package delivered” messages the article talks about. Mine are usually of the form: “thank you for paying…