According to new research by theHIPAA Journal, the start of 2021 has seen a 48% reduction in the month-on-month healthcare data breaches of 500 or more records in the United States.
Compared to 62 incidents of data breaches reported in December last year, only 32 such incidents were reported in the first month this year. However, it is also important to note that though this number is…
The Zerologon vulnerability gained spotlight around late September 2020. By then, Microsoft had already released a partial patch for the flaw. However, most Active Directory admins chose to ignore the incomplete patch fearing it might cause network issues, despite it being recommended by Microsoft and the the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
If you weren’t aware…
A ransomware attack on California DMV’s third party vendor, Automatic Funds Transfer Services Inc. In February may have potentially put millions of customer data at risk. Following the attack, the DMV said that it halted all data transfer operations to the Seattle-based company and immediately notified law enforcement officers including the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
“AFTS does not…
Sequoia Capital, a venture capital firm based in California’s Silicon Valley informed its investors that after an employee’s email fell victim to a successful phishing attack, some personal and financial information may have been accessed by a third-party, according to Axios.
A Sequoia spokesperson said that law enforcement was notified and they have hired leading cybersecurity experts to…
Early this month, Google published astable channel updatefor Chrome for Desktop. The new version (88.0.4324.150) released by Google for Windows, Mac, and Linux contains a critical bugfix for a zero-day vulnerability that was exploited in the wild.
This zero-day, labeled CVE-2021-21148, is a “heap overflow” memory corruption bug in the V8— Google Chrome’s open-source…
Earlier last week Kia Motors USA was experiencing a nationwide IT outage. The outage started on 13th February when the Kia Owners Portal went offline and began displaying the following error message on their website: “Kia is experiencing an IT service outage that has impacted some internal networks.”
As per BleepingComputer reports, Kia Motors USA had reportedly been with a DoppelPaymer…
