Infosecurity News

Mobile Threats Delivered by Adult Content Double
Mobile threats distributed via adult content doubled in 2019

Foodora Data Breach Impacts Customers in 14 Countries
Delivery Hero confirms Foodora data breach affecting three quarters of a million customers

Poor Password Practices and Growing Acceptance of Biometrics in Financial Accounts
People regularly use the same passwords across online financial accounts

Exposed Cloud Databases Attacked 18 Times Per Day
Comparitech’s honeypot research finds first raid just eight hours in

Twitter Shutters 32,000 State-Linked Accounts
Social network accuses Russia, China and Turkey of pushing propaganda

Live Event Manufacturer Reveals Employee Data Breach
Personal and financial data may have been compromised

Business Owner Receives Death Threats After Racist Hack
Houston business owner receives death threats after hackers post racist messages on her company’s social media

Building of Asia Pacific Submarine Cable Begins
Work starts on high-performance underwater cable that will connect China, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam

Ransomware Hits Tennessee City
Ransomware attack knocks out Knoxville’s computer network

Over 100,000 UK Security Cameras Could Be at Risk of Hacking
3.5 million security cameras around the world potentially have a critical security flaw

Aussie Beer-Maker Suffers Ransomware Attack
Lion loses its roar Down Under

Privacy Expert Slams Amazon’s Facial Recognition ‘Pause’
Technology's use by police under fire after US protests

Kubernetes Clusters Hit by Kubeflow Crypto-Mining Attack
Microsoft spots unusual threat vector as machine learning toolkit is targeted

US Cops' Personal Info Leaked Online
Personal data of police officers in the United States is being leaked online

SD-WAN is the Cloud Security of Choice for Half of UK Businesses
A survey looks at the deployment of SD-WAN on the public cloud

Macy's Pays $192,000 to Settle Data Breach Suit
Macy’s settles a class-action lawsuit over a 2018 data breach with a payment of $192,000

UK Government Awards £10m Fund to Develop Cybersecurity Tech Solutions
Fund will enable recipients to build on their innovative solutions

MAZE Attacks Victoria Beckham's Advisory Firm
Threat group claims to have exfiltrated data from M&A firm used by Victoria Beckham

Malicious Apps Pose as Contact Tracing to Infect Android Devices
Malicious apps pose as contact tracing functions to infiltrate users of Android devices

Cybersecurity Firm OPORA Announces $7m Seed Funding
OPORA will use funding for product development, sales and marketing efforts



