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Reports of the breach suggest one member of staff at the famous hospital was caught attempting to view notes for Kate Middleton, the future Queen of the United Kingdom. We have systems in place to monitor management of patient information and, in the case of any breach, all appropriate investigatory, regulatory and disciplinary steps will be taken.
UK bakery chain Greggs is the latest victim of recent point of sale system outages that forced store closures at large retail chains over the past few weeks. Greggs is a bakery chain with 2,300 branches across the UK, selling sausage rolls, baked goods, sandwiches, and sweets.
Cyber security company Proofpoint recently surveyed 7,500 employees and 1,050 security professionals in 15 countries, including Australia, Japan, South Korea and Singapore. Employees in the Asia-Pacific region were the most likely among global employees surveyed to say they were unsure about their personal responsibility for cyber security.
A novel denial-of-service (DoS) attack vector has been found to target application-layer protocols based on User Datagram Protocol (UDP), putting hundreds of thousands of hosts likely at risk....
A cyberattacker and extortionist of a medical center has pleaded guilty to federal computer fraud and abuse charges in the US. Robert Purbeck, adopting the aliases "Lifelock" and "Studmaster" during his time as a cybercriminal, according to the Department of Justice, stole personal data belonging to more than 132,000 people. In one incident described by the DoJ following his 2021 indictment [PDF], Purbeck was said to have targeted a Florida orthodontist and threatened to sell his child's personal information unless they paid a ransom.
Smaller RaaS groups are trying to recruit new and "Displaced" LockBit and Alphv/BlackCat affiliates by foregoing deposits and paid subscriptions, offering better payout splits, 24/7 support, and other "Perks". RaaS operations usually consist of a core group that develops the ransomware and mantains the underlying infrastructure for its deployment, and affiliates that leverage it after breaking into target systems and networks and give the core group a percentage of the ransom as payment for their services.
The makers of Flipper Zero have responded to the Canadian government's plan to ban the device in the country, arguing that it is wrongfully accused of facilitating car thefts. Flipper Devices, the maker of the portable pen-testing tool, argues that these accusations are ill-informed and Flipper Zero is incapable of stealing cars using keyless entry systems.
In North America, 77 percent of all instances were in the United States, according to the annual State of Stalkerware report. Stalkerware is easily available and can be downloaded from the internet onto a victim's smartphone without their knowledge, enabling whomever put the surveillance app on their partner's or child's devices to spy on their victims while the software remains "Invisible to the user."
Did you know that 79% of organizations are already leveraging Generative AI technologies? Much like the internet defined the 90s and the cloud revolutionized the 2010s, we are now in the era of...
Multiple threat actors are exploiting the recently disclosed security flaws in JetBrains TeamCity software to deploy ransomware, cryptocurrency miners, Cobalt Strike beacons, and a Golang-based...