cybersecurity

Jaguar Land Rover to pause production for third week due to cyberattack 

Luxury car-maker Jaguar Land Rover said Tuesday it will not resume vehicle manufacturing operations until at least September 24 due to a cyberattack earlier this month. In a new statement, the company said it informed colleagues, suppliers, and partners that the halt in production will extend into its third week. The company said this was […]

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VC firm Insight Partners says thousands of staff and limited partners had personal data stolen in a ransomware attack

Venture capital firm Insight Partners has notified thousands of people, including the firm’s limited partners, that their personal information was stolen by hackers in an earlier data breach. In a statement on September 4, the VC giant said it completed its review earlier in August following its data breach, which it described as a “social

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Samsung patches zero-day security flaw used to hack into its customers’ phones

Samsung says it has fixed a zero-day security vulnerability that is being used to hack into its customers’ phones.  The phone maker said the security flaw, discovered in a software library for displaying images on Samsung devices, allows hackers to remotely plant malicious code on Samsung devices running Android 13 through the most recent version,

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Apple’s latest iPhone security feature just made life more difficult for spyware makers

Buried in an ocean of flashy novelties announced by Apple this week, the tech giant also revealed new security technology for its latest iPhone 17 and iPhone Air devices. This new security technology was made specifically to fight against surveillance vendors and the types of vulnerabilities they rely on the most, according to Apple. The

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France says Apple notified victims of new spyware attacks

Apple has notified a number of individuals that their devices were targeted in a spyware campaign, according to the French government. France’s national cybersecurity response unit said on Thursday that it was aware that Apple on September 3 sent a new notification to affected customers whose Apple devices may have been hacked. The cybersecurity unit

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Jaguar Land Rover says data stolen in disruptive cyberattack

Jaguar Land Rover said on Wednesday that an unspecified amount of data was stolen during a cyberattack that has brought vehicle assembly lines to a standstill. In a statement on Wednesday, the U.K.-based maker of Land Rover and Range Rover vehicles said it was aware that “some data” was taken in the incident.  Companies that

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VC giant Insight Partners notifies staff and limited partners after data breach

Venture capital firm Insight Partners says it has completed notifying a number of individuals, including the firm’s limited partners, whose personal information was stolen by hackers in a January data breach.  In a statement late last week, the company said it completed its review in August following the data breach, which it described as a

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Salesloft says Drift customer data thefts linked to March GitHub account hack

Salesloft said a breach of its GitHub account in March allowed hackers to steal authentication tokens that were later used in a mass-hack targeting several of its big tech customers.  Citing an investigation by Google’s incident response unit Mandiant, Salesloft said on its data breach page that the as-yet-unnamed hackers accessed Salesloft’s GitHub account and

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