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H2: Twitter’s Security and Privacy Practices Questioned by Whistleblower Twitter’s former head of security, Peiter Zatko, filed an 84-page whistleblower report last month with the US government, alleging Twitter’s poor security practices and being out of compliance with an FTC order to protect user data. Zatko, a white-hat hacker who served as Twitter’s head of…
On Wednesday, May 12th, 2023, Clearview AI faced further penalties from France’s privacy watchdog for failing to pay a 20-million-euro fine for data breaches imposed last year. Clearview AI, a US-based firm, collects images of faces from the internet without permission and sells access to billions of pictures to clients, including law enforcement agencies. French…
Australian Enterprise Software Maker TechnologyOne Resumes Trading Following Hack Internet security remains a critical issue in today’s business landscape. Unfortunately, no company is immune to cyber-attacks, even those that specialize in cybersecurity solutions. One of Australia’s leading software companies, TechnologyOne, was recently hacked. The company halted trading temporarily when it detected unauthorized access to some…
# In-Depth Report: North Korean Hackers Responsible for Cyberattack on South Korean Hospital Seoul National University Hospital, one of South Korea’s largest hospitals, suffered a major cyberattack between May and June 2021, resulting in data exposure for about 831,000 people, mostly patients, according to a recent report released by the Korean National Police Agency (KNPA)….
H2: Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLP Discloses Potential Unauthorized Access to Email Accounts In a press release issued on May 5, 2023, Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLP, a prominent law firm, announced that it had become aware of a potential unauthorized access into the email account of one of its attorneys in May 2022. While…
## T-Mobile discloses Second Cyber Attack of 2023 ### A data breach that exposed customers’ personal information T-Mobile, one of the largest wireless communication companies in the United States, suffered its second data breach incident in 2023. The attack occurred between February 24 to March 30, which allowed hackers to access customers’ personal information. Although…
Malicious HTML Attachments Dominate Cybersecurity Threats The cybersecurity industry has long warned about the dangers of HTML attachments, and recent data highlights that these continue to pose a huge threat to organizations worldwide. According to the Barracuda cybersecurity team, over 45% of all HTML attachments scanned in March 2023 were found to be malicious, illustrating…
## Microsoft Patches High-Risk Flaws in Azure Cloud Platform On May 4th, the Ermetic Research Team reported the discovery of three high-risk vulnerabilities in the Azure API Management Service that could have allowed cybercriminals to access sensitive information on targeted services, deny access to servers, or scan internal networks to mount further attacks. These vulnerabilities…
# In-Depth Report: Hacker Poisons PHP Packagist Supply Chain While Looking for Job On May 5th, 2023, an attacker targeted four unused and inactive Packagist accounts and leveraged them to modify the 14 linked GitHub projects to include a single item in each of them: a file called `composer.json.` This file contained an entry named…
NextGen Healthcare Breach Exposes Over 1 Million Patient Records NextGen Healthcare, a provider of cloud-based healthcare technology, recently disclosed a data breach affecting more than one million people. The breach occurred between March 29 and April 14, with unauthorized access to a database caused by stolen client credentials from incidents not related to NextGen. The…