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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in June 2021 – 9.8 million records breached

IT Governance

discloses ransomware incident (unknown). discloses ransomware incident (unknown).

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On Open Platforms, Wifi, Home Automation, and Kitty Litter

John Battelle's Searchblog

Another wonderful example is the Global Positioning System (GPS), once the realm only of the United States military, but now the driver of countless commercial opportunities around the globe (again thanks to decisions made during the Clinton administration). Anyone can access civilian GPS data – it’s open and free to all.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Aerospace

ForAllSecure

CBS: A computer security researcher was kept off a plane for suggesting on social media that he could hack into the planes control system. Honestly I disagree with that and so while I was actually on a plane I was very blunt having paid for my wireless access. One of the biggest risks is physical access to an airplane.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: A Hacker From Hollywood

ForAllSecure

While they were romantically together, Hughes gave the bar complete access to his team of scientists. He told her he really wanted to create faster planes so that he could sell them to the US military. A majority of these Wi Fi radios were manufactured between 1997 and 1999. Lamarr: I thought the aeroplane was too slow.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in May 2020 – 8.8 billion records breached

IT Governance

Hackers exploit vulnerability to access email accounts of Estonian dignitaries (unknown). GoDaddy notifies users after hacker accesses its servers (unknown). Russian military accessed Chancellor Angela Merkel’s emails in 2015 hack (unknown). ATM manufacturer Diebold Nixdorf hit by ransomware attack (unknown).

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Supply Chain Security is the Whole Enchilada, But Who’s Willing to Pay for It?

Krebs on Security

-based tech firm to secretly embed tiny computer chips into electronic devices purchased and used by almost 30 different companies. The chips were alleged to have spied on users of the devices and sent unspecified data back to the Chinese military. In a nutshell, the Bloomberg story claims that San Jose, Calif.