Infosecurity News

Home Improvement Firm Fined £200k for Nuisance Calls
Home2Sense cold-called relatives of recently deceased homeowners

Online Thieves Steal $320m from Crypto Firm Wormhole
Attackers exploited a vulnerability to harvest 120K Ethereum

Orange County Launches Cybercrime Initiative
SafeOC aims to help public identify and report cyber-threats

Fake Influencer Flags Hacking Tactics
Cybersecurity awareness campaign shows how hackers gather personal data from social media

Online Ad Association Fined for Privacy Violation
Belgian data watchdog penalizes IAB Europe over ad-targeting tool

#Enigma2022: Pandemic Misinformation Reveals Challenges for Online Health Information
Populations in every country believe in various misinformation and low-quality information statements

Third of Employees Admit to Exfiltrating Data When Leaving Their Job
71% of IT leaders believe the 'great resignation' has increased security risks in their organization

CVSS 9.9-Rated Samba Bug Requires Immediate Patching
Open source networking protocol exposed to low complexity attacks

90% of Security Leaders Warn of Skills Shortage
Over a third of positions still unfilled after 12 weeks

Scottish Agency Still Recovering from 2020 Ransomware Attack
SEPA forced to write off £2m due to corrupted records

Cyber-Attack on Oil Firms
Threat actors disrupt operations at two German oil storage and supply firms

California Passes FLASH Act
California State Senate passes bill criminalizing cyber flashing

Social Security Numbers Most Targeted Sensitive Data
Social Security Numbers most common target in breaches of sensitive data

British Council Students' Data Exposed in Major Breach
Hundreds of thousands of British Council students worldwide had their personal and login details exposed

Data Leak Exposes IDs of Airport Security Workers
Security giant's misconfigured storage bucket leaks 1.5 million files

FBI: Olympic Athletes Should Leave Devices at Home
Feds warn of cyber-threat for participants heading to China

CISA Tells Organizations to Patch CVEs Dating Back to 2014
Another eight bugs added to exploited vulnerabilities catalog

Cengage to Buy Cybersecurity Training platform, Infosec
Education technology company to buy cybersecurity training platform for $191m

Aussie Tech Entrepreneur Extradited Over SMS Fraud
Extradition for tycoon suspected in $41m auto-subscription fraud scheme

Prison for Dark Overlord Collaborator
Canadian locked up for aiding cyber extortionist group and selling stolen identities on dark web



