Humans are Top Factor in Cloud Security: CSA Study
A study by the CSA found that the human element continues to play a key role in the top threats facing cloud computing environments, including misconfigurations, IAM, and insecurity interfaces and APIs ... Read More
Ransomware Attack Costs loanDepot Almost $27 Million
The January ransomware attack on loanDepot has so far cost the mortgage lender $26.9 million, including $25 million toward the possible settlement of a related class action lawsuit, company executives said in their Q2 financial report ... Read More
Student Devices Wiped — Mobile Guardian Hacked AGAIN
Richi Jennings | | Blackmail, cybersecurity education, Cybersecurity in education, DevOps Education, DevSecOps Education, MDM, Mobile Device Management (MDM), Mobile Guardian, Ransomware, SB Blogwatch, singaporeHackers ate my homework: MDM software for schools is breached for second time this year—13,000 devices wiped in Singapore alone ... Read More
Hunters International RaaS Group Points SharpRhino at IT Workers
Hunters International, a fast-rising RaaS group, is using a typosquatting domain for the open source Angry IP Scanner tool to deliver a novel RAT malware called SharpRhino in a campaign targeting IT workers ... Read More
TikTok Abuses Kids, say DoJ and FTC
Richi Jennings | | Bytedance, children, Children and smartphones, Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), china, chinese government, Coppa, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, social media, spyware, TikTok, TikTok Ban, Won’t somebody think of the children?For You Plague: U.S. Justice Dept. and Federal Trade Commission file lawsuit, alleging TikTok broke the COPPA law, plus a previous injunction ... Read More
Prisoner Swap: Huge Russian Hackers Freed — Seleznev and Klyushin
Richi Jennings | | cyber attacks russia, Putin, Roman Seleznev, Russia, russia hacker, russia-based, Russian hacker, Russian hackers, Russian hacking, SB Blogwatch, Vladimir Putin, Vladislav KlyushinPragmatic politics: Anger as Putin gets back two notorious cybercriminals ... Read More
CrowdStrike Sued? — Delta Dials David Boies
Richi Jennings | | CrowdStrike, CrowdStrike Falcon, CrowdStrike incident;, Delta Airlines, falcon, SB BlogwatchIs Delta the First of Many? Airline calls in attorneys Boies Schiller Flexner to claw back its cash ... Read More
Tenable Considering a Potential Sale: Report
Tenable reportedly is exploring a potential sale that would add to the growing consolidation in a cybersecurity market that is seeing new innovations in cyber-defenses as the threat of cyberattacks grows ... Read More
HealthEquity: 4.3 Million People Affected by Data Breach
Some 4.3 million people had their personal and health care information compromised by hackers who were were able to access the data by breaching the account of a business partner of HealthEquity ... Read More
WTH? Google Auth Bug Lets Hackers Login as You
Richi Jennings | | G Suite, Google Apps, Google Apps for Work, Google Workspace, OAuth, oauth 2.0, oauth abuse, Oauth Application Abuse, SB Blogwatch, securing oauthG Suite Sours: Domain owners flummoxed as strangers get Google for their domains ... Read More
