Hacktivist collective Anonymous claims to have obtained gigabytes of data from Epik, which provides domain name, hosting, and DNS services for a variety of clients. These include the Texas GOP, Gab, Parler, and 8chan, among other right-wing sites. The stolen data has been released as a torrent. The hacktivist collective says that the data set, […]
A quarter of cyber incidents reported to Australian security officials over the past year have targeted critical infrastructure and essential services, including health care, food distribution and energy. The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) will disclose the incidents in a report to be published on Wednesday, warning of “significant targeting, both domestically and globally, of […]
A cybercrime is now reported every eight minutes in Australia with criminals and spies taking advantage of large numbers of people working from home during COVID-19 lockdowns. The federal government’s latest official assessment shows malicious online actors are exploiting the pandemic and are actively targeting vulnerable Australians and health services. In its second annual threat […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Some of the country’s leading technology companies have committed to investing billions of dollars to strengthen cybersecurity defenses and to train skilled workers, the White House announced Wednesday following President Joe Biden’s private meeting with top executives. The Washington gathering was held during a relentless stretch of ransomware attacks that have targeted […]
WhatsApp has been fined a record €225m (£193m) after it was found to have breached EU data protection rules. An investigation by Ireland’s privacy watchdog found that the company broke stringent regulations in relation to transparency of data shared with other companies also owned by parent firm Facebook. The Data Protection Commission said on Thursday it was also […]
Nine cyber attacks affecting the British transport sector were missed by the UK’s mandatory reporting laws and were only disclosed to the government on a voluntary basis, Sky News has learnt. A law introduced three years ago was intended to boost Britain’s ability to defend itself from foreign state and criminal hackers by obliging critical […]
The heads of Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and IBM are among the business leaders that met with President Joe Biden at the White House on Wednesday to discuss how the government and private sector can work together to improve the nation’s cybersecurity, according to a senior administration official. “Most of our critical infrastructure is owned […]
A cyber-crime group known as REvil took meticulous care when picking the timing for its most recent attack – US Independence Day, 4 July. They knew many IT specialists and cyber-security experts would be on leave, enjoying a long weekend off work. Before long, more than 1,000 companies in the US, and at […]
A data breach that affected more than 40 million current, former and prospective T-Mobile customers is a massive cybersecurity incident that is bound to spark a public backlash. Or, then again, maybe it will be forgotten in a week. The proliferation of ever-larger breaches during the past decade has left the public so inured to […]
A hacker appears to be selling personally identifiable information (PII) relating to millions of US-based T-Mobile customers on an underground forum. While the forum post doesn’t say the data belongs to T-Mobile explicitly, the seller told Motherboard they obtained the information by breaching the telecom company’s servers. The pool of data reportedly includes the social security numbers (SSN), phone numbers, […]