Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2019

The German newspaper Der Spiegel revealed that the software company behind TeamViewer was compromised in 2016 by Chinese hackers. China-linked hackers breached German software company behind TeamViewer in 2016, this news was reported by the German newspaper Der Spiegel. “In autumn 2016, TeamViewer was target of a cyber-attack.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Zendesk discloses a data breach that took place in 2016 when a hacker accessed data of 10,000 users, including passwords, emails, names, and phone numbers. In 2016, customer service software company Zendesk suffered a security breach that exposed data of 10,000 users, including passwords, emails, names, and phone numbers.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

China-linked cyberespionage group LightBasin hacked mobile telephone networks around the world and used specialized tools to access calling records. The cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2016, according to the CrowdStrike researchers it is using a very sophisticated toolset.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Computer faults that disrupted voting in a North Carolina county in 2016 were not caused by cyber attacks, a federal investigation states. The Feds’ report said it didn’t find any malware or evidence of remote access to the Durham County Board of Elections systems. On Monday, the U.S. ” reported the AP agency. .

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2018

France’s data protection agency had fined the ride-sharing company Uber with 400,000 euros ($455,000) over a 2016 data breach. The data breach suffered by Uber in 2016 exposed the personal data of some 57 million clients and drivers worldwide. SecurityAffairs – hacking, 2016 data breach). Pierluigi Paganini.

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National Archives Records Express

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

We are pleased to announce the publication of the National Archives and Records Administration’s Federal Agency Records Management Annual Report, 2016. . The RMSA used a maturity model scale of 0 to 4 to measure email policies, systems, access, and disposition based on the Success Criteria for Managing Email published by NARA in 2016.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Uber agrees to $148 million settlement with US States and the District of Columbia over the massive 2016 data breach that exposed personal data of 57 million of its users. The attackers accessed also the names and driver’s license numbers of roughly 600,000 of its drivers in the United States. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2019

Canadian media revealed that in November 2016, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) was a hit by a large-scale cyberattack. The expert discovered that hackers took control of two of its servers to carry out a so-called watering hole attack aimed at infecting people accessing the sites hosted on the servers.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. The 911 service as it exists today.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 22, 2022

Department of Justice , RSOCKS offered clients access to IP addresses assigned to devices that had been hacked: “A cybercriminal who wanted to utilize the RSOCKS platform could use a web browser to navigate to a web-based ‘storefront’ (i.e., The employees who kept things running for RSOCKS, circa 2016.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2024

The hackers told TechCrunch that they stole the database from a Singapore-based company that has access to the sensitive database, however, they did not name the victim organization. In June 2016, security researcher Chris Vickery found a copy of the World-Check database dated 2014 that was accidentally exposed online.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2023

The ransomware attack took place on December 2, 2022, threat actors exploited a previously unknown security exploit , dubbed OWASSRF by Crowdstrike , to gain initial access to the Rackspace Hosted Microsoft Exchange. ” The experts at Rackspace discovered that the threat actors accessed the Personal Storage Table (.PST)

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2020

” The attack took place in November 2016 and impacted the National Lottery customer database containing about 9,000,000 records. According to the operator Camelot, roughly 26,500 accounts of the UK National Lottery players were accessed by cybercriminals. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JANUARY 15, 2021

Data Subject Access Requests – no unqualified right to documents. Due to the dates on which the DSARs had been made, the relevant legislation was in fact the Data Protection Act 1998 ( “DPA 98” ).

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2022

An unauthenticated, remote attacker could trigger the issue to access the Redis instance that is running within the NOSi container. The Cisco IOS XR flaw (CVE-2022-20821, CVSS score: 6.5, is actively exploited in attacks in the wild, it resides in the health check RPM of Cisco IOS XR Software.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Health Data Breach Could Have Started as Early as 2016 Officials in New Zealand are investigating one or more data breaches at a healthcare provider that could have affected nearly 1 million patients. While the most recent cyber intrusion was discovered in August, it appears that attackers began accessing the T?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

So I just set it up and switched all access to HTTPS and hopefully the dead-links effect are minimum. You can still access the MMD (MalwareMustDie) blog under sub-domain of “blog2” with HTTP but I won’t add more posts on those servers and I will minimize its service. . Hello, it’s unixfreaxjp here.

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 27, 2018

for failure to implement some basic security measures that made possible the 2016 Uber data breach. published an article on its website revealing that two external individuals had accessed the personal data of 57 million Uber riders and drivers worldwide at the end of 2016. and Uber Technologies Inc., Background. and Uber B.V.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 29, 2017

On March 28, 2017, the French Data Protection Authority (“CNIL”) published its Annual Activity Report for 2016 (the “Report”) and released its annual inspection program for 2017. The CNIL estimates that the GDPR will lead to the appointment of a data protection officer in at least 80,000 to 100,000 organizations in France. smart TVs.

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Uber hired Sullivan as its first Chief Security Officer (“CSO”) following a data breach in September 2014 related to the unauthorized access of approximately 50,000 consumers’ personal information, including their names and drivers’ license numbers. In response, Uber disclosed the breach publicly, and to the FTC, in November 2017.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

state attorneys general (the “Attorneys General”) in connection with a 2016 data breach affecting the personal information (including driver’s license numbers) of approximately 607,000 Uber drivers nationwide, as well as approximately 57 million consumers’ email addresses and phone numbers.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 12, 2022

Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) says it is investigating reports that hackers gained unauthorized access to an agency portal that taps into 16 different federal law enforcement databases. Unidentified hackers shared this screenshot of alleged access to the Drug Enforcement Administration’s intelligence sharing portal.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

On November 10, 2016, the Court of Appeal for Moscow’s Taginsky District upheld an August 2016 decision by the district’s lower court that LinkedIn had violated Russian data protection laws. Access to the professional networking site is now set to be blocked across Russia. This post has been updated. .

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Kelihos Bot Herder Offered Bargain Spam Campaign Pricing More evidence that running cybercrime schemes remains inexpensive and accessible to anyone with criminal intent: To send spam emails, admitted botnet herder Peter Levashov quoted customers $500 for 1 million emails. And that was just his 2016 pricing.

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KnowBe4

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

. -- "Hacker is believed to have breached Uber's entire network in a social engineering attack, which one security vendor says is more extensive than the company's 2016 global data breach and access logs potentially altered.".

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2019

But purchasing steeply discounted licenses for cloud-based subscription products like recent versions of Microsoft Office can be an extremely risky transaction, mainly because you may not have full control over who has access to your data. Microsoft Office 365 access link: Http://portal.office.com/. Password Initial: (sent password).

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2019

A hacker that goes online with the handle “erratic” breached the systems at Capital One and gained access to personal information from 106 million Capital One credit applications. ” Paige Thompson is a former Amazon Web Services software engineer who worked for a Capital One contractor from 2015 to 2016.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2024

The Seoul High Court Criminal Division 20 (Chief Judge Jeong Seon-jae Baek Suk-jong Lee Jun-hyun) charged Mr. A for being a developer for the TrickBot gang since 2016. TrickBot initially partnered with Ryuk ransomware which used it for initial access in the network compromised by the botnet. million via ransomware deployed by Trickbot.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2024

12 percent of the listed servers are running a version of Exchange Server that is no longer supported, and around 25 percent of all servers use current versions of Exchange 2016 and 2019 that lack of security patches. “Around 45,000 Microsoft Exchange servers in Germany can currently be accessed from the Internet without restrictions.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

JANUARY 20, 2020

On January 15, the Court of Justice of the European Union’s (CJEU) Advocate General (AG) Manuel Campos Sánchez-Bordona delivered his Opinion on four references for preliminary rulings on the topic of retention of and access to communications data. Brexit implications.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2024

The Moobot botnet has been active since at least 2016, it also includes other routers and virtual private servers (VPS). Pawn Storm most likely easily brute forced the credentials of the backdoored SSH servers and thus gained access to a pool of EdgeRouter devices they could abuse for various purposes.”

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CILIP

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

New book provides an accessible and practical introduction to data science. This book aims to provide an accessible introduction to data science using detailed examples and analysis on real data sets, with a focus on the application of open source software.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2024

In January 2019, law enforcement agencies in the US and Europe announced the seizure of the popular xDedic marketplace , an underground market offering for sale access to compromised systems and personally identifiable information. The black marketplace has been active since 2014, it was first analyzed by experts at Kaspersky Lab in 2016.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Here’s the story of one former electric vehicle owner who discovered he could still gain remote, online access to his old automobile years after his lease ended. Mathew Marulla began leasing a Ford Focus electric vehicle in 2013, but turned the car back in to Ford at the end of his lease in 2016.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2024

Apache Superset contains an insecure default initialization of a resource vulnerability that allows an attacker to authenticate and access unauthorized resources on installations that have not altered the default configured SECRET_KEY according to installation instructions. Improper Access Control Vulnerability CVE-2023-23752.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2021

Big companies have long been worried about the very real threat of disgruntled employees creating identities on darknet sites and then offering to trash their employer’s network for a fee (for more on that, see my 2016 story, Rise of the Darknet Stokes Fear of the Insider ). “Would you like to earn millions of dollars?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

She confirmed that the company discovered an unauthorized access to the IT infrastructure. In 2016, alleged Asian threat actors targeted ThyssenKrupp to steal company secrets. The hackers managed to access sensitive HR information and documents about the company’s current and former employees.

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