Tag: security

The UK data regulator has fined American Express (Amex) £90,000 for sending over 4 million spam emails to customers within one year. […]

This week’s ransomware news has been dominated by the attack on Ireland’s Health Service Executive (HSE) that has severely disrupted Ireland’s healthcare system. […]

Air India disclosed a data breach after personal information belonging to roughly 4.5 million of its customers was leaked two months following the hack of Passenger Service System provider SITA in February 2021. […]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says the Conti ransomware gang has attempted to breach the networks of over a dozen US healthcare and first responder organizations. […]

QNAP is advising customers to update the HBS 3 disaster recovery app to block Qlocker ransomware attacks targeting their Internet-exposed Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices. […]

E-commerce platform Mercari has disclosed a major data breach incident that occurred due to exposure from the Codecov supply-chain attack. Mercari is a publicly traded Japanese company and an online marketplace that has recently expanded its operations to the United States and the United Kingdom. […]

Since the DarkSide ransomware operation shut down a week ago, multiple affiliates have complained about not getting paid for past services and issued a claim for bitcoins in escrow at a hacker forum. […]

The High Court of Ireland has issued an injunction against the Conti Ransomware gang, demanding that stolen HSE data be returned and not sold or published. […]

Comcast, one of America’s largest broadband providers, has now deployed RPKI on its network to defend against BGP route hijacks and leaks. Left unchecked, a BGP route hijack or leak can cause a drastic surge in internet traffic that now gets misdirected or stuck, leading to global congestion and a Denial of Service (DoS). […]