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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.

The hackers also claim they are selling on the dark web roughly 2 billion records Data Viper collated from numerous breaches and data leaks, including data from several companies that likely either do not know they have been hacked or have not yet publicly disclosed an intrusion. Data Viper is the brainchild of Vinny Troia, a security researcher who runs a cyber threat intelligence company called Night Lion Security.

Any Chingari User Account Can Be Hijacked in Seconds The Chingari app for iOS and Android asks users to register an account by granting basic profile access to their Google accounts, which is a standard part of OAuth-based authentication. Chingari Patch Update To Be Released Today Kumar responsibly disclosed the issue to the makers of Chingari earlier this week, and the company in response acknowledged the vulnerability.

Any Chingari User Account Can Be Hijacked in Seconds The Chingari app for iOS and Android asks users to register an account by granting basic profile access to their Google accounts, which is a standard part of OAuth-based authentication. Chingari Patch Update To Be Released Today Kumar responsibly disclosed the issue to the makers of Chingari earlier this week, and the company in response acknowledged the vulnerability.

With anyone who can work from home actually doing so during the pandemic, networking - and therefore network security - has become more business-critical than it was before. When Freeform Dynamics surveyed Register readers for their experiences with network security, it was frustrating to see so many say that the one sure way to persuade management to take it seriously was to suffer a major computer security breach.

Encrochat took the base unit, installed its own encrypted messaging programs which route messages through the firm's own servers, and even physically removed the GPS, camera, and microphone functionality from the phone. Unbeknownst to Mark, or the tens of thousands of other alleged Encrochat users, their messages weren't really secure.

Cybercriminals claim they have hacked the systems of U.S. printing giant Xerox and they are threatening to leak files stolen from the company unless they get paid. The threat actor operating the ransomware known as Maze has published several screenshots on its website in an effort to demonstrate that it has gained access to Xerox systems.

Maze ransomware masterminds claim to have stolen source code from LG after hacking into the electronics giant. "Soon you'll be able to know how the LG company lost the source code of its products for one very big telecommunications company, working worldwide," the crooks warned in an announcement on their site this week.