Despite security experts constantly warning about the risks of reusing passwords, a shockingly high number of people still do just that – and to make matters worse, many are even writing them down on pieces of paper that can easily
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US health giant Kaiser hit by data breach — millions of customers informed they could be at risk
American healthcare giant Kaiser Foundation Health Plan exposed sensitive data on millions of its current and former patients, apparently by mistake. Among the data inadvertently shared with advertisers are member names and IP addresses, and information regarding their membership status
Developing countries are being used by hackers to try out new ransomware strains
IT security pros are not the only ones with sandboxes and honeypots to test malware in, as hackers are doing the same – in developing parts of the world. A report from Performanta says that many hackers would first try
Cisco reveals zero-day attacks used by hackers to attack government networks in major threat campaign
Unidentified, sophisticated threat actors, possibly affiliated with nation-states in the East, were found abusing two flaws in Cisco VPNs and firewalls, to drop malware used for espionage. Their targets include governments and critical infrastructure networks all around the world. A
CISOs are nervous Gen AI use could lead to more security breaches
Chief Information Security Officers (CISO) are becomingly ever more concerned the increasing use of Generative AI tools could lead to more cybersecurity incidents. A new pape by security experts Metomic surveying more than 400 CISOs in the UK and the
Web app bug exposed details of over half a million Neighbourhood Watch members
Neighbourhood Alert, a messaging app for members in the UK, was leaking sensitive user data to anyone who cared to look, experts have revealed. In the UK, citizens can form neighborhood watch groups, which have their authorized administrators, and other
GitHub malware spreads by hackers spoofing Microsoft files
Hackers have found a way to upload malware to GitHub, and even have it look as if it was hosted and distributed by other, legitimate operators. This is according to a new report from cybersecurity researchers McAfee, who recently saw
More threats against open source software could be coming soon, experts warn
The recent attack on the XZ Utils supply chain was not an isolated incident, but rather part of a larger social engineering campaign that sought to compromise numerous JavaScript projects, experts have warned. In a joint blog post, the OpenSource
Hacker claims responsibility for Giant Tiger hack, leaks millions of records online
A hacker has claimed responsibility for a recent data breach at Giant Tiger which resulted in the leak of sensitive information belonging to millions of customers. BleepingComputer recently spotted a new thread on an underground forum titled “Giant Tiger Database
This new PowerShell malware looks like it was written by AI
Ever since ChatGPT was first introduced to the world, we kept hearing warnings of how hackers might use it to create malicious code quickly and efficiently. Now, courtesy of cybersecurity researchers Proofpoint, we have real-life proof (pun definitely intended). Earlier