Tag: security
Microsoft set to dock bosses’ pay — if they haven’t shown good cybersecurity performance
The annual bonuses of Microsoft’s highest-ranking workers officers’ annual bonuses will depend on how mindful they were of cybersecurity, the company’s vice chair and president has revealed Ahead of the US House committee hearing on Microsoft’s security practices this week, Brad Smith submitted an addendum to his written testimony, in…
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Truist Bank confirms data breach after stolen data appears online
The Sp1d3r cybercrime gang is making quite a name for itself as it is now selling sensitive data on thousands of Truist banking employees. Truist is a major US commercial bank formed in late 2019 after SunTrust Banks and BB&T merged, and now has $535 billion AUM (assets under management).…
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Ex-employee of major South-East Asian IT firm jailed after he brings down its test servers — with scripts found on Google
An Indian national formerly employed in Singapore by the information technology (IT) services firm National Computer Systems (NCS) has been handed a custodial sentence for deleting all 180 of its test servers with scripts that he found on Google and then “perfected”. The story (via Tom’s Hardware) says Kandula Nagaraju,…
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New York Times warns freelancer journalists their data may have been stolen in cyberattack
The New York Times has warned a number of its freelance associates that their data may have been stolen in a recent attack on its GitHub repositories. News recently broke of a hacker posting source code belonging to the New York Times Company on the anonymous imageboard, 4chan. The archive…
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Panera warns employees their data may have been leaked following cyberattack
Panera Bread has confirmed suffering a ransomware attack earlier this year. The company sent out a data breach notification letter to affected customers earlier this week, confirming some sensitive customer information was stolen from company servers. As per the notification letter, the company discovered the attack on March 23, 2024,…
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US government agency warns scammers are spoofing it — so make sure you don’t pick up this call
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the government agency looking after cybersecurity protections, has issued a warning it is being impersonated by scammers. In an alert, the organization said impersonation scams were on the rise, and that they often use the names and titles of government employees. “The…
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