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Vulnerabilities discovered by researchers in VPN products primarily used for remote access to operational technology networks can allow hackers to compromise industrial control systems and possibly cause physical damage. Researchers from industrial cybersecurity company Claroty have identified potentially serious vulnerabilities in Secomea GateManager, Moxa EDR-G902 and EDR-G903, and HMS Networks' eWon.
On Tuesday, the US Department of Justice charged two Chinese nationals with allegedly hacking hundreds of organizations and individuals in America and elsewhere to steal confidential corporate secrets on behalf of Beijing for more than a decade. The US claims that the two accused worked both for themselves and with the backing of the Chinese government's Ministry of State Security.
A number of high-profile Twitter accounts, including those of US presidential candidate Joe Biden, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Uber, and Apple, were breached simultaneously in what's a far-reaching hacking campaign carried out to promote a cryptocurrency scam. Following the tweets, the accounts for Apple, Uber, Mike Bloomberg, and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk all posted tweets soliciting bitcoins using the exact same Bitcoin address as the one included on the CryptoForHealth website.
A number of high-profile Twitter accounts, including those of US presidential candidate Joe Biden, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Uber, and Apple, were breached simultaneously in what's a far-reaching hacking campaign carried out to promote a cryptocurrency scam. Following the tweets, the accounts for Apple, Uber, Mike Bloomberg, and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk all posted tweets soliciting bitcoins using the exact same Bitcoin address as the one included on the CryptoForHealth website.
Following the hacks of verified Twitter accounts for several high-profile people, including Bill Gates and Joe Biden, how can you prevent your own account from falling into the wrong hands? In the meantime if this type of attack was able to breach verified accounts, what can regular Twitter users do to protect their own accounts from being hacked? Let's look at the security controls offered by Twitter.
The Twitter accounts of Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Apple and Uber have each been hijacked at the same time to push a cryptocurrency scam in an unprecedented breach of Twitter accounts. Twitter locked down thousands of verified accounts belonging to elite Twitter users and high-profile companies Wednesday afternoon in an effort to prevent hackers from perpetrating a massive cryptocurrency scam.
Twitter said it is working to fix a "Security incident" after scammers hijacked high-profile accounts on Wednesday to dupe people out of money. "We are aware of a security incident impacting accounts on Twitter," the messaging platform said in a tweet.
If anyone is well-positioned to flip a switch and solve the email security problem entirely, it would be Microsoft. In its 2020 State of Security report, it found that 96 percent of respondents used Microsoft 365 for email delivery.
Hackers infiltrated Collabera, siphoned off at least some employees' personal information, and infected the US-based IT consultancy giant's systems with ransomware. Collabera identified malware in its network system consistent with a ransomware attack.
The Russian hacker accused of raiding LinkedIn, Dropbox and Formspring, and obtaining data on 213 million user accounts, has been found guilty. The jury reckoned Nikulin probably swiped the LinkedIn account details, all 117 million of them, for commercial gain, though they didn't think greed played a role in his theft of 28 million account records from Formspring and 68 million from Dropbox.