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  1. KP Snacks Hit by Cyber-Attack

    Britain’s nuts held to ransom in cyber-attack that could cause snack shortage

  2. Growing Number of Phish Kits Bypass MFA

    Proofpoint warns of use of transparent reverse proxies

  3. Home Improvement Firm Fined £200k for Nuisance Calls

    Home2Sense cold-called relatives of recently deceased homeowners

  4. Online Thieves Steal $320m from Crypto Firm Wormhole

    Attackers exploited a vulnerability to harvest 120K Ethereum

  5. Orange County Launches Cybercrime Initiative

    SafeOC aims to help public identify and report cyber-threats

  6. Fake Influencer Flags Hacking Tactics

    Cybersecurity awareness campaign shows how hackers gather personal data from social media

  7. Online Ad Association Fined for Privacy Violation

    Belgian data watchdog penalizes IAB Europe over ad-targeting tool

  8. #Enigma2022: Pandemic Misinformation Reveals Challenges for Online Health Information

    Populations in every country believe in various misinformation and low-quality information statements

  9. 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

  10. CVSS 9.9-Rated Samba Bug Requires Immediate Patching

    Open source networking protocol exposed to low complexity attacks

  11. 90% of Security Leaders Warn of Skills Shortage

    Over a third of positions still unfilled after 12 weeks

  12. Scottish Agency Still Recovering from 2020 Ransomware Attack

    SEPA forced to write off £2m due to corrupted records

  13. Cyber-Attack on Oil Firms

    Threat actors disrupt operations at two German oil storage and supply firms

  14. California Passes FLASH Act

    California State Senate passes bill criminalizing cyber flashing

  15. Social Security Numbers Most Targeted Sensitive Data

    Social Security Numbers most common target in breaches of sensitive data

  16. British Council Students' Data Exposed in Major Breach

    Hundreds of thousands of British Council students worldwide had their personal and login details exposed

  17. Data Leak Exposes IDs of Airport Security Workers

    Security giant's misconfigured storage bucket leaks 1.5 million files

  18. FBI: Olympic Athletes Should Leave Devices at Home

    Feds warn of cyber-threat for participants heading to China

  19. CISA Tells Organizations to Patch CVEs Dating Back to 2014

    Another eight bugs added to exploited vulnerabilities catalog

  20. Cengage to Buy Cybersecurity Training platform, Infosec

    Education technology company to buy cybersecurity training platform for $191m

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