Kentucky’s unemployment system appears to have suffered its second data breach in four months after a claimant reported being able to view another claimant’s personal data. The reporter of the alleged breach logged on to the Office of Unemployment Insurance’s

Cyber-criminals are redirecting their attacks from the travel and hospitality industry to the computer and IT sector. According to new research by Specops Software, 4 in 5 businesses in the computer and IT industry have seen an increase in cybercrime

2020 Cost of a Data Breach Report: the global total cost of a data breach averaged $3.86 million in 2020, down about 1.5% from the 2019 study. Every year, I write about the annual report published by the Ponemon Institute on

Havenly has become the latest online firm to suffer a serious breach of customer data after hackers published the information for free on the dark web. Notorious dark web trader ShinyHunters was spotted last week posting the data of nearly

Researchers from the think tank Parliament Street have uncovered a text message scam offering a ‘Free TV License.’ Coinciding with the BBC’s controversial decision to axe the universal free TV license for over-75s, the fraud is designed to steal the

Microsoft has revealed it is in preliminary talks to buy TikTok’s operations in several countries outside China, in a deal that would help allay national security concerns about the app which are fomenting in Washington. Under the proposals, which have

The best CISOs are those involved with transformation and using the current pandemic situation to establish new ideas and strategies. Speaking on a virtual panel led by panel chair Ed Amoroso, founder and CEO of TAG Cyber and featuring speakers

The CyberNews research team discovered an unsecured data bucket on a publicly accessible Amazon Simple Storage (S3) server containing confidential data belonging to IndieFlix. Original post at: https://cybernews.com/security/indieflix-leaks-thousands-of-filmmaker-ssns-confidential-agreements-videos/ IndieFlix is a US-based entertainment company offering a subscription-based online video streaming

A substantial proportion of second hand mobile phones are vulnerable to being hacked due to not being supported by important security updates, an investigation by Which? has found. The analysis centered around three popular mobile phone retailers: SmartFoneStore, Music Magpie

Alcohol delivery startup Drizly has suffered a major breach of customer data, with nearly 2.5 million accounts compromised in an incident discovered earlier this month. The firm — which describes itself as the world’s largest marketplace for beers, wines and

Crypto-wallet firm Ledger has revealed a major security breach of its e-commerce and marketing database, resulting in the compromise of one million customer email addresses and the personal details of thousands. Aside from the email addresses, which could be used

Twitter has confirmed that the social engineering attack which enabled the takeover of major accounts was achieved by a spear-phishing attack. In an update to its previous statement, Twitter said the attack occurred on July 15 and “targeted a small

The EU has applied its first ever sanctions in retaliation for cyber-attacks carried out by state-backed Chinese, Russian and North Korean hackers over recent years. The bloc said it will impose a travel ban and asset freeze on six individuals