Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2019

The German newspaper Der Spiegel revealed that the software company behind TeamViewer was compromised in 2016 by Chinese hackers. China-linked hackers breached German software company behind TeamViewer in 2016, this news was reported by the German newspaper Der Spiegel. “In autumn 2016, TeamViewer was target of a cyber-attack.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Zendesk discloses a data breach that took place in 2016 when a hacker accessed data of 10,000 users, including passwords, emails, names, and phone numbers. In 2016, customer service software company Zendesk suffered a security breach that exposed data of 10,000 users, including passwords, emails, names, and phone numbers.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

China-linked cyberespionage group LightBasin hacked mobile telephone networks around the world and used specialized tools to access calling records. The cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2016, according to the CrowdStrike researchers it is using a very sophisticated toolset.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2018

France’s data protection agency had fined the ride-sharing company Uber with 400,000 euros ($455,000) over a 2016 data breach. The data breach suffered by Uber in 2016 exposed the personal data of some 57 million clients and drivers worldwide. SecurityAffairs – hacking, 2016 data breach). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Computer faults that disrupted voting in a North Carolina county in 2016 were not caused by cyber attacks, a federal investigation states. The Feds’ report said it didn’t find any malware or evidence of remote access to the Durham County Board of Elections systems. On Monday, the U.S. ” reported the AP agency. .

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Uber agrees to $148 million settlement with US States and the District of Columbia over the massive 2016 data breach that exposed personal data of 57 million of its users. The attackers accessed also the names and driver’s license numbers of roughly 600,000 of its drivers in the United States. Pierluigi Paganini.

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National Archives Records Express

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

We are pleased to announce the publication of the National Archives and Records Administration’s Federal Agency Records Management Annual Report, 2016. . The RMSA used a maturity model scale of 0 to 4 to measure email policies, systems, access, and disposition based on the Success Criteria for Managing Email published by NARA in 2016.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2019

Canadian media revealed that in November 2016, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) was a hit by a large-scale cyberattack. The expert discovered that hackers took control of two of its servers to carry out a so-called watering hole attack aimed at infecting people accessing the sites hosted on the servers.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. The 911 service as it exists today.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 30, 2024

The unauthorized access to the IT infrastructure of the company occurred on June 26, threat actors used the credentials of a standard employee account within its IT environment. ” In May 2019, the German newspaper Der Spiegel revealed that the German software company behind TeamViewer was compromised in 2016 by Chinese hackers.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

An unprivileged local user with access to SUID (or otherwise privileged) PIE binary could use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system.” CVE-2024-40766 is an Improper Access Control Vulnerability impacting SonicWall SonicOS. reads the advisory published on RedHat. “An

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 22, 2022

Department of Justice , RSOCKS offered clients access to IP addresses assigned to devices that had been hacked: “A cybercriminal who wanted to utilize the RSOCKS platform could use a web browser to navigate to a web-based ‘storefront’ (i.e., The employees who kept things running for RSOCKS, circa 2016.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2020

” The attack took place in November 2016 and impacted the National Lottery customer database containing about 9,000,000 records. According to the operator Camelot, roughly 26,500 accounts of the UK National Lottery players were accessed by cybercriminals. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2023

The ransomware attack took place on December 2, 2022, threat actors exploited a previously unknown security exploit , dubbed OWASSRF by Crowdstrike , to gain initial access to the Rackspace Hosted Microsoft Exchange. ” The experts at Rackspace discovered that the threat actors accessed the Personal Storage Table (.PST)

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JANUARY 15, 2021

Data Subject Access Requests – no unqualified right to documents. Due to the dates on which the DSARs had been made, the relevant legislation was in fact the Data Protection Act 1998 ( “DPA 98” ).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

So I just set it up and switched all access to HTTPS and hopefully the dead-links effect are minimum. You can still access the MMD (MalwareMustDie) blog under sub-domain of “blog2” with HTTP but I won’t add more posts on those servers and I will minimize its service. . Hello, it’s unixfreaxjp here.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 7, 2020

A judge in Israel handed down the sentences plus fines and probation against Yarden Bidani and Itay Huri , both Israeli citizens arrested in 2016 at age 18 in connection with an FBI investigation into vDOS. ” This likely refers to 23-year-old Jesse Wu , who KrebsOnSecurity noted in October 2016 pseudonymously registered the U.K.

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2022

An unauthenticated, remote attacker could trigger the issue to access the Redis instance that is running within the NOSi container. The Cisco IOS XR flaw (CVE-2022-20821, CVSS score: 6.5, is actively exploited in attacks in the wild, it resides in the health check RPM of Cisco IOS XR Software.

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 27, 2018

for failure to implement some basic security measures that made possible the 2016 Uber data breach. published an article on its website revealing that two external individuals had accessed the personal data of 57 million Uber riders and drivers worldwide at the end of 2016. and Uber Technologies Inc., Background. and Uber B.V.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Health Data Breach Could Have Started as Early as 2016 Officials in New Zealand are investigating one or more data breaches at a healthcare provider that could have affected nearly 1 million patients. While the most recent cyber intrusion was discovered in August, it appears that attackers began accessing the T?

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 29, 2017

On March 28, 2017, the French Data Protection Authority (“CNIL”) published its Annual Activity Report for 2016 (the “Report”) and released its annual inspection program for 2017. The CNIL estimates that the GDPR will lead to the appointment of a data protection officer in at least 80,000 to 100,000 organizations in France. smart TVs.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2024

The hackers told TechCrunch that they stole the database from a Singapore-based company that has access to the sensitive database, however, they did not name the victim organization. In June 2016, security researcher Chris Vickery found a copy of the World-Check database dated 2014 that was accidentally exposed online.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

state attorneys general (the “Attorneys General”) in connection with a 2016 data breach affecting the personal information (including driver’s license numbers) of approximately 607,000 Uber drivers nationwide, as well as approximately 57 million consumers’ email addresses and phone numbers.

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Uber hired Sullivan as its first Chief Security Officer (“CSO”) following a data breach in September 2014 related to the unauthorized access of approximately 50,000 consumers’ personal information, including their names and drivers’ license numbers. In response, Uber disclosed the breach publicly, and to the FTC, in November 2017.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

On November 10, 2016, the Court of Appeal for Moscow’s Taginsky District upheld an August 2016 decision by the district’s lower court that LinkedIn had violated Russian data protection laws. Access to the professional networking site is now set to be blocked across Russia. This post has been updated. .

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Krebs on Security

MAY 12, 2022

Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) says it is investigating reports that hackers gained unauthorized access to an agency portal that taps into 16 different federal law enforcement databases. Unidentified hackers shared this screenshot of alleged access to the Drug Enforcement Administration’s intelligence sharing portal.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The maintainers of the WordPress Jetpack plugin have addressed a critical vulnerability that could allow logged-in users to access forms submitted by other users on the same site. released in 2016.” Most websites have been or will soon be automatically updated to the latest version. ” reads the advisory.

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KnowBe4

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

. -- "Hacker is believed to have breached Uber's entire network in a social engineering attack, which one security vendor says is more extensive than the company's 2016 global data breach and access logs potentially altered.".

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2019

But purchasing steeply discounted licenses for cloud-based subscription products like recent versions of Microsoft Office can be an extremely risky transaction, mainly because you may not have full control over who has access to your data. Microsoft Office 365 access link: Http://portal.office.com/. Password Initial: (sent password).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2024

Between July 2016 and May 2021, Kavzharadze listed over 626,100 stolen login credentials on Slilpp and sold more than 297,300 of them. “The credentials included access to accounts with banks located in New York, California, Nevada, and Georgia. The Russian man was sentenced to 40 months in prison and ordered to pay $1,233,521.47

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2019

A hacker that goes online with the handle “erratic” breached the systems at Capital One and gained access to personal information from 106 million Capital One credit applications. ” Paige Thompson is a former Amazon Web Services software engineer who worked for a Capital One contractor from 2015 to 2016.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Kelihos Bot Herder Offered Bargain Spam Campaign Pricing More evidence that running cybercrime schemes remains inexpensive and accessible to anyone with criminal intent: To send spam emails, admitted botnet herder Peter Levashov quoted customers $500 for 1 million emails. And that was just his 2016 pricing.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

JANUARY 20, 2020

On January 15, the Court of Justice of the European Union’s (CJEU) Advocate General (AG) Manuel Campos Sánchez-Bordona delivered his Opinion on four references for preliminary rulings on the topic of retention of and access to communications data. Brexit implications.

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CILIP

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

New book provides an accessible and practical introduction to data science. This book aims to provide an accessible introduction to data science using detailed examples and analysis on real data sets, with a focus on the application of open source software.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2024

The Seoul High Court Criminal Division 20 (Chief Judge Jeong Seon-jae Baek Suk-jong Lee Jun-hyun) charged Mr. A for being a developer for the TrickBot gang since 2016. TrickBot initially partnered with Ryuk ransomware which used it for initial access in the network compromised by the botnet. million via ransomware deployed by Trickbot.”

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Here’s the story of one former electric vehicle owner who discovered he could still gain remote, online access to his old automobile years after his lease ended. Mathew Marulla began leasing a Ford Focus electric vehicle in 2013, but turned the car back in to Ford at the end of his lease in 2016.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2019

It appears the attackers in this case are targeting companies that in one form or another have access to either a ton of third-party company resources, and/or companies that can be abused to conduct gift card fraud. retailer, said the crooks who broke into Wipro used their access to perpetrate gift card fraud at the retailer’s stores.

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