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Massive DDoS attack brought down 25% Iranian Internet connectivity

Security Affairs

The N etBlocks internet observatory, which tracks disruptions and shutdowns, observed yesterday (February 8, 2019) a massive outage of the country’s connectivity to the Internet. Confirmed: Internet partially shut down #Iran from 11:45 a.m. ” #CyberAttack at 11:44 local time disrupted internet services in #Iran for an hour.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in June 2019 ­– 39.7 million records leaked

IT Governance

June 2019’s total of 39,713,046 breached records is the lowest since May last year – the month that the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) came into effect. Theta360 exposes user-uploaded photos (11 million). Leaked video shows how patient data in Hong Kong hospitals can be publicly accessed (unknown). In other news….

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2019 end-of-year review part 2: July to December

IT Governance

Welcome to the second part of our round-up of 2019’s information security stories. Among other news: The ICO began an investigation into how the TikTok video-sharing app handles children’s personal data. You can find more of July’s incidents in our list of data breaches and cyber attacks in July 2019. million (£4.2 million (£2.99

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Threat actors hacked US Census Bureau in 2020 by exploiting a Citrix flaw

Security Affairs

Threat actors breached the servers of US Census Bureau on January 11, 2020, exploiting an unpatched Citrix ADC zero-day vulnerability, OIG revealed. The flaw was disclosed by Citrix in December 2019, the experts explained that it could be exploited by attackers to access company networks.

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2019 end-of-year review part 1: January to June

IT Governance

A royal baby, a fire at Notre-Dame, the highest grossing film of all time and more than 12 billion breached data records: 2019 has been quite a year. IT Governance is closing out the year by rounding up 2019’s biggest information security stories. Video-sharing app TikTok agreed to a record $5.7 million (£4.2

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Weekly Update 121

Troy Hunt

Plus, I'm talking a bit about a bunch of Ubiquiti bits I'll be installing soon to fix the problem seen below: Relevant to this week’s video I’m about to publish - my network cupboard shame ?? pic.twitter.com/SOB9hq6uTH — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) January 11, 2019. I think it's alright. I think it's alright.

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No Bad Faith Means No Sanctions for Failing to Preserve Video of Altercation: eDiscovery Case Law

eDiscovery Daily

7, 2019) , Kansas Magistrate Judge James P. O’Hara denied the plaintiff’s motion for sanctions based on the defendant’s alleged spoliation of a surveillance video that shows an altercation between the plaintiff and her supervisor, stating that “plaintiff has failed to meet the requirements of Fed. In Stovall v. 17-2412-JWL (D.