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Jonathan Greig reports: A cyberattack has shut down the website of the premier international organization responsible for tracking meteors. The International Meteor Organization (IMO) has continued tracking asteroids and meteor through its Facebook pag… Continue reading International Meteor Organization says cyberattack dealt ‘critical blow’ to website
PYMNTS reports: The Port of Los Angeles reportedly blocked more than 120 million cyberattacks during August. That’s according to a report Thursday (Sept. 17) by Bloomberg News, which notes that these attacks on America’s busiest container hub for globa… Continue reading Port of LA Fended Off 120 Million Cyberattacks in August
Alexander Martin reports: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed on Wednesday an emergency mechanism allowing any EU country to summon the bloc’s governments in response to security threats including sabotage, cyberattacks and dron… Continue reading EU chief wants joint response to cyberattacks, sabotage
Six months ago, a hacktivist announced that they had accessed and acquired 8.3 million tips submitted on supposedly anonymous tip lines and platforms used by schools, communities, Crime Stoppers organizations, law enforcement, and the military. Six mon… Continue reading Navigate360 may soon release a public notice about its horrific breach, but will any individuals be notified?
Swati Khandelwal reports: A security breach at Gyazo, Helpfeel’s image-sharing service, exposed about 23.62 million user records, including email addresses and password hashes, the Kyoto-based company said in a notice published Wednesday. It also… Continue reading Gyazo Breach Exposes 23.62 Million User Records and 490 Million Image Metadata Records
Mike Stimpson reports: Some patient services may be affected as the general hospital in Nipigon responds to what it describes as a “cyber security incident.” An incident involving ransomware affected information technology systems, Nipigon District Mem… Continue reading Canada: Nipigon hospital hit by ransomware attack
David Sun reports: The payroll system of mosques and madrasahs overseen by the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (MUIS) has been hacked and held for ransom, The Straits Times has learnt. The SmartHRMS human resources (HR) system is supplied by Sin… Continue reading Payroll system of mosques, madrasahs hit by ransomware; staff details potentially compromised
Matthew Sellers reports: Revolut wasn’t hacked in the usual sense. No one broke into its servers or slipped malware past its defences. Someone asked for customer data, from what looked like a genuine government email address, and Revolut handed i… Continue reading Revolut’s paperwork breach shows why insurers are rethinking what counts as a ‘cyber attack’
DysruptionHub reports: Cedar County Memorial Hospital in El Dorado Springs, Missouri, shut down its IT networks Aug. 14 after a disruption left its electronic health record, patient portal and internet access unavailable. The outage also disrupted diag… Continue reading Ransomware group claims attack on Missouri’s Cedar County Memorial Hospital after IT outage
Dev Kundaliya reports: Revolut recently disclosed a security incident in which an unauthorised third party obtained sensitive customer information by sending fraudulent requests from the email domain of a legitimate government agency. People claiming r… Continue reading Hackers demand 10,000 Bitcoin from Revolut following data breach