Tag: security
FTC says social media apps are surveilling kids and teens
Social media apps are surveilling children and teenagers, and using the data gathered to earn billions of dollars every year. At the same time, they’re doing close to nothing to protect their young users from harmful content. This is one of the conclusions published in a new staff report from…
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CrowdStrike outage is causing businesses to switch security vendors
According to new research by Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), one in 10 organizations affected by CrowdStrike’s July outage are dropping their current security vendor. Of the tenth of organizations switching provider, nearly half (40%) have already replaced their cybersecurity solutions, with the remaining (60%) companies planning to…
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Google revamps cloud security with Mandiant Managed Defense threat detection
Google Cloud users in the United States are getting a host of upgraded security features that should make the platform more resilient to cyberattacks. The company announced Mandiant’s Managed Defense for Google Security Operations is now available in the country, offering users real-time threat detection and response. The threat hunting…
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Legacy IT infrastructure hosted Chinese spies inside a US engineering firm for months
Chinese state-sponsored hackers were snooping around a US-based global engineering firm for months, trying to steal classified information, blueprints, login credentials, and other sensitive data. An exclusive report by The Register, discussed the news with John Dwyer, Director of Security Research at Binary Defense, a managed detection and response firm…
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Lockbit says it has hit eFile.com, again
American online tax filing platform, eFile.com, appears to have suffered (yet another) ransomware attack. Earlier this week, ransomware operators LockBit added the company to their extortion site, threatening to leak the files stolen during the raid, The Register reports. However, the company has not yet confirmed, nor denied, the attack.…
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Temu denies data breach — but hacker claims to have leaked 87 million strong database
A cybercriminal claims to have breached Temu and stolen millions of customer records, but the ecommerce giant is vehemently denying the claims. A hacker with the alias ‘smokinthashit’ took to BreachForums, one of the most popular underground forums out there, and advertised a new database, allegedly stolen from the company.…
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