Hackers’ Breach of Australian Regional Water Supplier Went Undetected 9 Months
Australia’s Queensland’s largest regional water supplier, Sunwater, says hackers targeted it in a cyber security breach that went undetected for nine months. Last year, the hackers left suspicious files on a webserver to redirect visitor traffic to an online video platform. The breach occurred between August 2020 and May 2021 and involved unauthorized access to […]
RedDoorz fined $54k for 2020 data breach | efani Partner TheNFG.org
After the attack, RedDoorz amended its credential policy and implemented two-factor authentication for all developers’ tools and accounts. Millions of RedDoorz’s user records were sold on underground forums in September and October last year. The compromised data included the customers’ names, contact numbers, hashed passwords, and booking information, but the report noted that masked credit […]
CynergisTek Reports Supply Chain Risks Continue Driving Demand for Vendor Security
CynergisTek (NYSE American: CTEK), leading cybersecurity, privacy, compliance, and IT audit firm helping organizations in highly regulated industries navigate emerging security and privacy issues, announces a one-year Vendor Security Management service agreement with a nationally recognized children’s hospital with multiple locations. The healthcare industry relies on third-party vendors to deliver a wide range of goods […]
Manhasset School District continues to recover from September ransomware attack
Robert Pelaez has an update on the Manhasset School District ransomware incident that resulted in the dumping of numerous files on current and former employees and students on the dark web — many with personal and sensitive information. But what caught my eye in the update was this: Last month, district officials warned Manhasset students […]
HPE Hackers Breached Aruba Central using Stolen Key
Lawrence Abrams reports: HPE has disclosed that data repositories for their Aruba Central network monitoring platform were compromised, allowing a threat actor to access collected data about monitored devices and their locations. Aruba Central is a cloud networking solution that allows administrators to manage large networks and components from a single dashboard.
Waikato DHB warned a cyber attack ‘catastrophic for patient safety’
Natalie Akoorie reports: The Waikato District Health Board was warned it’s IT security was inadequate and severely compromised just months before a massive ransomware attack that brought Waikato Hospital to its knees. The internal cyber security document dated December last year also warned that a lack of training meant staff posed an unintentional threat to […]
MediaMarkt Still Blocked Ransomware Attack Intermittent Services
Zach Shipman reports: The MediaMarktSaturn group has suffered a heavy ransomware attack in recent days. It is difficult to say who did it: someone from Holland is ready to believe that it is the Hive group, which would have asked for 240 million dollars in bitcoin, however, at the moment there is no claim on […]
Southern Ohio Medical Center hit by cyber-attack
Patients who had appointments at Southern Ohio Medical Center (SOMC) facilities Thursday received notice that their appointments were canceled due to an emergency. Rumors quickly started circulating that the hospital and its facilities we unable to access their computers or phone lines due to the computer system being down. It was later announced on the […]
efani Bluetooth & Perceived Security Threats – $5 Million Insurance
Bluetooth is best recognized as the wireless technology that enables hands-free earpieces and uses the Internet of Things to connect your phone to audio, navigation, and gadgets (such as, IoT). Bluetooth, as useful as it is for productivity and comfort, can also pose significant security-based mobile threats. While most of the issues that were identified […]
T-Mobile Security Breach: 48.6 Million Customers Affected
Recent articles on cell phone data & security breaches have been written about a massive T-Mobile security breach impacting millions of T-Mobile customers. Hackers stole databases containing customer data and tried to sell parts of it on the black market. The company has started an investigation to determine the validity of the claims regarding this […]