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Cyber Attacks
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Quest Diagnostics data breach affects 12 million customers
Clinical laboratory firm Quest Diagnostics Inc. has admitted exposure of personal information of nearly 11.9 million customers after…
June 4, 2019
News aggregator app Flipboard hacked; user data stolen
Hackers managed to breach Flipboard’s security for sensitive database multiple times putting millions of users at risk. Just…
May 29, 2019
Why So Many Businesses Can Never Recover After Cyber Attacks
A cyber attack can cripple critical infrastructure and businesses and generate negative press. In other cases, it could…
May 26, 2019
TeamViewer was Targeted by Chinese Hackers in 2016
TeamViewer has only confirmed now that Chinese state-sponsored hackers targeted the company in 2016. The Germany-based company behind…
May 20, 2019
Hackers steal Amazon sellers’ funds in “extensive” attack
Amazon says it was a “serious” attack targeting 100s of sellers. The American e-commerce and technology giant Amazon.com,…
May 9, 2019
The Pitfalls of Keeping Your Ports Wide Open
Based on security assessment results, penetration testers often recommend hiding an enterprise network’s ports behind a whitelist. However,…
May 9, 2019
Chinese hackers accessed NSA hacking tools before Shadow Brokers leak
Chinese hackers then used NSA’s hacking tools and technology to target American allies. Symantec researchers have discovered that…
May 7, 2019
Israel claims to bomb Hamas’s cyber Ops HQ amidst uncertainties
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has allegedly attacked a building that serves as the hub of Hamas’s cyber…
May 6, 2019
Change your password: Docker suffers breach; 190k users affected
Microsoft says its official Microsoft images hosted in Docker Hub have not been compromised. The company behind Docker,…
April 30, 2019
The Weather Channel goes offline after ransomware attack
The ransomware took The Weather Channel’s live transmission offline for almost an hour. Another day, another ransomware attack;…
April 21, 2019