article thumbnail

The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 27 November – 3 December 2023

IT Governance

The security researcher Bob Diachenko of SecurityDiscovery first identified the exposed information in mid-September. Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes 1,212 Butte School District Source (New) Education USA Yes 900+ Fenway Community Health Center, Inc. Data breached: over 300 million records.

article thumbnail

Weekly podcast: TSB, hotel locks and NATO exercise

IT Governance

This week, we discuss TSB’s chaotic system upgrade, a security flaw in electronic hotel locks and a major NATO cyber security exercise. Security researchers have discovered that millions of electronic door locks used in hotel rooms around the world are vulnerable to hacking. Here are this week’s stories.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

National Safety Council data leak: Credentials of NASA, Tesla, DoJ, Verizon, and 2K others leaked by workplace safety organization

Security Affairs

It’s advisable for them to externally verify the information contained in emails and exercise caution when clicking links or opening attachments. User Table Schema | Source: Cybernews As a huge number of emails were leaked, platform users could potentially experience a surge in spam and phishing emails. Are the leaked passwords crackable?

Passwords 141
article thumbnail

The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 29 January – 4 February 2024

IT Governance

Enforcement Uber fined €10 million for GDPR breaches The Dutch data protection authority, Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, has fined Uber €10 million for failing to be transparent about its data retention practices and making it difficult for drivers to exercise their data privacy rights.

article thumbnail

Australian Defense Department will replace surveillance cameras from Chinese firms Hikvision and Dahua

Security Affairs

An internal audit of surveillance equipment in Australian government and agency offices revealed the presence of more than 900 built systems manufactured by Chinese companies Hikvision and Dahua. The presence of cameras poses an unacceptable risk to national security. There is an issue here and we’re going to deal with it.”

article thumbnail

New HiatusRAT campaign targets Taiwan and U.S. military procurement system

Security Affairs

Then they analyzed the connections made to this server to identify potential targets and discovered that over 91% of the inbound connections were from Taiwan, and there appeared to be a preference for Ruckus-manufactured edge devices. military procurement system appeared first on Security Affairs. .” 57 155.138.213[.]169

article thumbnail

Username (and password) free login with security keys

Imperial Violet

Most readers of this blog will be familiar with the traditional security key user experience: you register a token with a site then, when logging in, you enter a username and password as normal but are also required to press a security key in order for it to sign a challenge from the website. But those Yubikeys certainly do.

Passwords 114