ZDNet Data stolen in a cyber-attack against a London council last year has been leaked online by the hackers responsible for the attack. Hackney council, which provides services for 280,000 residents in the UK …
Months after this ‘serious’ cyber-attack, stolen data has been leaked online by hackers Read More »
ZDNet The source code of mobile apps and internal tools developed and used by Nissan North America has leaked online after the company misconfigured one of its Git servers. The leak originated from a Git …
Nissan source code leaked online after Git repo misconfiguration Read More »
ZDNet Nearly one million compromised accounts providing internal access to video game companies are up for sale on dark web forums as cyber criminals increasingly turn towards the online-gaming industry as a high-value target, a …
Cyber criminals are taking aim at online gaming for their next big pay day Read More »
ZDNet Outgoing President of the United States Donald Trump has signed a new executive order, this time taking aim at a new set of eight Chinese apps. Included in the order are Alipay, CamScanner, QQ …
Alipay among eight Chinese apps banned in latest Trump executive order Read More »
ZDNet Ho Mobile, an Italian mobile operator, owned by Vodafone, has confirmed a massive data breach on Monday and is now taking the rare step of offering to replace the SIM cards of all affected …
Italian mobile operator offers to replace SIM cards after massive data breach Read More »
ZDNet In March of 2020, Americans began to realize that the coronavirus was deadly and going to be a real problem. What no Americans knew then was that at about the same time, the Russian …
SolarWinds: The more we learn, the worse it looks Read More »
ZDNet More than 100,000 Zyxel firewalls, VPN gateways, and access point controllers contain a hardcoded admin-level backdoor account that can grant attackers root access to devices via either the SSH interface or the web administration …
Backdoor account discovered in more than 100,000 Zyxel firewalls, VPN gateways Read More »
ZDNet During the 2020 financial year, consumers made over 4,000 complaints about telecommunications providers related to a user’s privacy. The Privacy Act 1988 gives the Australian Information Commissioner the discretion to recognise external dispute resolution …
Over 4,000 privacy complaints made about Aussie telcos in FY20 Read More »
ZDNet The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has said even though it provides technical advice on cybersecurity matters to the Australian government, it does not impose bans on apps or technology. One particular issue has been …
ASD leaves TikTok ban decisions in departmental hands Read More »
ZDNet Apple has begun to publish privacy summaries in all of its app stores across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS, with developers now needing to answer a questionnaire as part of submitting an app …
Apple introduces privacy information for apps across all of its stores Read More »
ZDNet Security researchers have discovered this week a botnet operation that targets PostgreSQL databases to install a cryptocurrency miner. Codenamed by researchers as PgMiner, the botnet is just the latest in a long list of recent …
PgMiner botnet attacks weakly secured PostgreSQL databases Read More »
ZDNet Hackers are resetting passwords for admin accounts on WordPress sites using a zero-day vulnerability in a popular WordPress plugin installed on more than 500,000 sites. The zero-day was used in attacks over the past …
Zero-day in WordPress SMTP plugin abused to reset admin account passwords Read More »