insurancejournal.com – The industry’s blockchain project, B3i, has ceased activities and filed for insolvency following unsuccessful funding rounds. “The directors, following
Cost of a data breach: from price increases to lost businesses
cybernews.com – When it comes to data breaches, consumers expect companies to bear the losses. But quite often, buyers get affected, as well. Tweeted by @CyberNews https://twitter.com/CyberNews/status/1552298009748156416
Shanghai police breach awakens Chinese underground
cybernews.com – The Shanghai police leak spurred Chinese-language activity and China-based data leaks. Tweeted by @CyberNews https://twitter.com/CyberNews/status/1552609820166979584
A data breach can cost millions — and you might be paying it | Digital Trends
digitaltrends.com – A data breach can be disastrous for any company — and not just in terms of data leaked. The cost of a data breach is now at an average of $4.4 million. Tweeted by @superfabis https://twitter.com/superfabis/status/1552553435463122946
Wawa Agrees to Payment, Security Changes for ’19 Data Breach
securityweek.com – Convenience store chain Wawa will pay $8 million to several states over a 2019 data breach that involved some 34 million payment cards. Tweeted by @CeptBiro https://twitter.com/CeptBiro/status/1552295668135477249
Reuters: EU Finds Evidence Employees’ Smartphones Compromised by Spyware
insurancejournal.com – The European Union found evidence that smartphones used by some of its staff were compromised by an Israeli company’s spy software, the bloc’s top justice
Digging JS files to find BUGs 🐞 – adnanmalikinfo
adnanmalik.info – Hey Hackers. It’s been a year since I published my last blog. But here I am with a story of JS file worth $2000 I was working on this target for a while and I had found several
Cybersecurity and Data Protection in the Healthcare Industry
varutra.com – Cybersecurity and Data Protection in the Healthcare Industry are necessary for securing the patient’s sensitive information and protecting their privacy. Tweeted by @varutra https://twitter.com/varutra/status/1552232651670650885
Uber confesses it covered up a huge data breach
techradar.com – Confession is part of a settlement with the DoJ, to avoid criminal charges. Tweeted by @SWilkinsonCyber https://twitter.com/SWilkinsonCyber/status/1552009617034600449
Hackers scan for vulnerabilities within 15 minutes of disclosure
bleepingcomputer.com – System administrators have even less time to patch disclosed security vulnerabilities than previously thought, as a new report shows threat actors scanning for vulnerable endpoints within 15 minutes … Tweeted by @bamitav https://twitter.com/bamitav/status/1552082214703140865
NetDiligence Announces Major Update of Breach Plan Connect®
netdiligence.com – NetDiligence has announced a major update to their cloud-hosted incident response plan solution, Breach Plan Connect®. Read more details within! Tweeted by @NetDiligence https://twitter.com/NetDiligence/status/1551953070908743680
Hacker Selling Twitter Account Data of Millions of Users
itsecurityguru.org – A threat actor, who call themselves ‘Devil’, is allegedly selling the data of 5.4 million Twitter users for $30,000. Tweeted by @immuniweb https://twitter.com/immuniweb/status/1551580393060564992
Months after Lopes claimed no anomalies found in their system, hackers were in their system
databreaches.net – Lopes is a Brazilian firm that provides real estate services in the form of brokerage and project and financial consulting. Lopes had what appears to be a data… Tweeted by @PogoWasRight https://twitter.com/PogoWasRight/status/1551563667220697088
Redeemer Ransomware 2.0 Released on Dark Web Forums
vpnoverview.com – A new version of a free-to-use ransomware builder software called Redeemer is being promoted on dark web forums. Tweeted by @VPNoverview https://twitter.com/VPNoverview/status/1551840026203389952
Uber dodges lawsuit by taking blame for data breach
cybernews.com – Controversial ride-sharing company agrees to take responsibility for 2016 data breach to avoid federal prosecution. Tweeted by @CyberNews https://twitter.com/CyberNews/status/1551900139379376129
Emerging issues in cybersecurity and networking threats
blog.seq.lv – Cybersecurity is the defense of internet-connected systems, along with their software, data, and hardware from cyber-attacks. This method is used to stop unauthorized access to data centers as well a… Tweeted by @seqscience https://twitter.com/seqscience/status/1551827361041186818
Medical Center Ransomware Attack Affects 700,000
bankinfosecurity.com – An Arizona medical center that suffered a ransomware attack in April has begun notifying 700,000 individuals of a data breach compromising sensitive medical and Tweeted by @healthinfosec https://twitter.com/healthinfosec/status/1537052310349697024
US healthcare provider suffers a data breach, exposing data of 69K people
cybernews.com – Kaiser Permanente (Kaiser) – the largest nonprofit health plan in the United States – has disclosed a data breach that impacted over 69,000 people. Tweeted by @CyberNews https://twitter.com/CyberNews/status/1536713803982839809
How eRiskHub Powers the Modern-Day Insurance Professionals
netdiligence.com – Designed to support cyber insurers, insureds and brokers in combating cyber risk, the eRiskHub® portal offers a wealth of resources, information and services to prevent and recover from data loss inc… Tweeted by @NetDiligence https://twitter.com/NetDiligence/status/1536772349780959232
25 million free VPN user records exposed
cybernews.com – Free VPN software left more than 18GB of connection logs accessible to the public. Threat actors could exploit the database to identify and even locate its users. Tweeted by @hhtsecurity https://twitter.com/hhtsecurity/status/1537008390970433536