Adam Levin

MAY 5, 2020

Hackers successfully breached the servers of a popular blogging platform and used them to mine cryptocurrency. As of May 4, Ghost announced that it had successfully purged the cryptocurrency mining malware from its systems. The post Ghost Blogging Platform Hacked To Mine Cryptocurrency appeared first on Adam Levin.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 10, 2024

The problem: Cox Communications fixed an authorization bypass flaw that allowed remote attackers to use backend APIs to reset modem settings and steal user data. The problem: SonicWall Capture Labs’ research team uncovered a critical remote code execution vulnerability ( CVE-2024-21683 ) in Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Some technology trends such as real-time data analytics are on-going, while others are more recent, such as blockchain. Information and data are synonyms but have different definitions. ARMA defines information as “Data that has been given value through analysis, interpretation, or compilation in a meaningful form” (ARMA 2016, p 28).

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 11, 2023

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breached: more than 59 million data records. BianLian claims to have exfiltrated 5 TB of data, comprising millions of sensitive documents. Data breached: 5 TB.

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