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24 Jan

#infosec | Russian Pleads Guilty to Running Online Criminal Marketplace

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A Russian man has pleaded guilty to running an illegal online marketplace that sold stolen payment card credentials to criminals, who used them to make over $20m in fraudulent purchases. Before a United States...
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24 Jan

#cybersecurity | #infosec | Sonos backtracks (a little) over its software updates fustercluck

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Sonos, the maker of wireless home sound systems, has got itself into some real hot water this week. On Tuesday, Sonos announced on its blog that from May 2020 it would...
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23 Jan

#infosec | Over Half of Organizations Were Successfully Phished in 2019

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans An annual report into the virulence of phishing scams has found that more than half of organizations dealt with at least one successful phishing attack in 2019. The 2020 “State of...
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23 Jan

#cybersecurity | #infosec | Robocalls, health hacks, and facial recognition fears

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A hospital gets hacked because of an ex-employee’s grudge, robocalls are on the rise, and we share a scary story about the future of facial recognition. All this and much more...
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21 Jan

#infosec | Scottish Police Deploy Tech That Extracts Data from Locked Smartphones

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Police Scotland has announced plans to establish “cyber kiosks” that will allow officers to scan locked smart devices for evidence. The 41 new kiosks will be located in police stations across local policing...
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20 Jan

#infosec | US Could Appoint a Cybersecurity Leader for Each State

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The USA is considering legislation that would protect local governments by requiring the appointment of a cybersecurity leader for each state. Backers of the Cybersecurity State Coordinator Act of 2020 say the proposed...
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20 Jan

#infosec | Travelex Begins Reboot as VPN Bug Persists

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Under-fire foreign currency firm Travelex has claimed its first customer-facing services in the UK have gone live after a crippling ransomware attack in December, with experts suggesting an unpatched VPN bug...
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16 Jan

#infosec | Bill for New Orleans Cyber-Attack $7m and Rising

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The December cyber-attack on the southern city of New Orleans has caused over $7m of damage. New Orleans mayor Latoya Cantrell said yesterday that the already alarmingly high figure continues to grow as the...
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16 Jan

#infosec | Business Disruption Attacks Most Prevalent in Last 12 Months

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Business disruption was the main objective of attackers in the last year, with ransomware, DDoS and malware commonly used. According to the CrowdStrike Services Cyber Front Lines Report, which offers observations...
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15 Jan

#infosec | UK Consultancies Leak Data on Thousands of Workers

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Thousands of UK business professionals have had their personal details exposed online via a leaky Amazon Web Services bucket, after researchers discovered files belonging to multiple consulting firms. The misconfigured S3...
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