cybersecurity

American Water warns of billing outages after finding hackers in its systems

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U.S. public utility giant American Water says it has disconnected some of its systems after discovering that hackers breached its internal networks last week.  American Water, which supplies drinking water and wastewater services to more than 14 million people across the United States, confirmed the security incident in an 8-K regulatory filing with the U.S. […]

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Comcast says customer data stolen in ransomware attack on debt collection agency

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U.S. telecom giant Comcast has warned that cybercriminals stole the personal data of more than 230,000 customers during a ransomware attack on a third-party provider of debt collection services. The breach relates to a February cyberattack on Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS), a Pennsylvania-based debt collection agency used by Comcast.  In a filing with

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CISA issues warning about another Ivanti flaw under active attack

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Hackers are exploiting yet another vulnerability in one of Ivanti’s widely used enterprise products, the U.S. government’s cybersecurity agency CISA warned in a fresh alert this week. The remote code execution flaw in Ivanti Endpoint Manager (EPM), a tool that helps organizations manage and secure their fleets of employee devices, was first disclosed by Trend

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News agency AFP notifies French authorities of potential data breach

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Agence France-Presse, one of the world’s largest news organizations, has notified French regulators of a potential data breach following a cyberattack last week. The AFP, which has an editorial presence in 260 cities across 150 countries, said in a brief statement on Saturday that it detected an “attack on its systems” that affected part of

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How the FBI and Mandiant caught a ‘serial hacker’ who tried to fake his own death

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In the early hours on January 20, 2023, a doctor’s user account logged onto the Hawaii Electronic Death Registry System from out of state to certify the death of a man named Jesse Kipf. The death certificate listed the cause as “acute respiratory distress syndrome” due to COVID-19 a week earlier. And with that, Kipf

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VPN providers don’t protect your privacy online. Here’s what can.

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If you’ve heard that a VPN provider can help protect your privacy and security online, don’t believe the hype. The truth is that most people don’t actually need a VPN.  By funneling all of your internet traffic through their own servers, VPN providers expose their customers to the very privacy risks they claim to help

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US government charges three Iranian hackers with Trump campaign hack

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The U.S. Department of Justice announced criminal charges against three hackers working for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), accusing the trio of a four-year-long hacking campaign that included this year’s hack of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.  On Friday, U.S. prosecutors published an indictment accusing Masoud Jalili, Seyyed Ali Aghamiri, and Yasar (Yaser) Balaghi of

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