Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

CISA published a security advisory warning of a wave of attacks carried out by China-linked APT groups affiliated with China’s Ministry of State Security. ” reads the security advisory. Government agencies.” CVE-2019-19781 enabled the actors to execute directory traversal attacks.[ 1 ] continues the advisory.

Government 70

Government Energy and Utilities Healthcare Access 70

IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2021

For the second month in a row, ransomware has dominated our list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Of the 128 publicly disclosed incidents that we discovered in May, more than 40% of them were ransomware attacks. Ransomware. That partially explains why May’s total of 115,861,330 breached records is comparatively low.

Data breaches 124

Data breaches Ransomware Insurance Energy and Utilities 124

IT Governance

JANUARY 3, 2024

billion records The security researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered an unprotected database exposing more than 1.5 Fowler contacted the company, which secured the database. The security researcher Bob Diachenko identified the leak in September and contacted TuneFab, which fixed the misconfiguration within 24 hours.

Data Privacy 107

Data Privacy Insurance Manufacturing Retail 107

ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

This is ransomware, starting with a phishing attack. So there’s a need, a definite need, for information security professionals to have access to industrial control systems -- not virtual, but actual hands on systems -- so they can learn. So this power grid attack is sounding more credible. Van Norman: Absolutely.

Energy and Utilities 52

Energy and Utilities Manufacturing Risk IT 52