Lose what you don’t use and other easy ways to limit your digital footprint and strengthen your online privacy and security In case you missed it, last week was Data Privacy Week, an awareness campaign to remind everybody that any of our online activities creates a trail of data and that, therefore, we need to
Month: February 2023
UK car dealer Arnold Clark notified customers on Tuesday that their data was compromised in a data breach that took place in December 2022. First disclosed by the company on January 03 on Twitter, the breach led to the company bringing its systems offline, including dealerships and third-party connections. “Our priority has been to protect our customers’
by Paul Ducklin It’s been a newsworthy few weeks for password managers – those handy utilities that help you come up with a different password for every website you use, and then to keep track of them all. At the end of 2022, it was the turn of LastPass to be all over the news,
Feb 02, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Risk / Threat Detection The State Cyber Protection Centre (SCPC) of Ukraine has called out the Russian state-sponsored threat actor known as Gamaredon for its targeted cyber attacks on public authorities and critical information infrastructure in the country. The advanced persistent threat, also known as Actinium, Armageddon, Iron Tilden, Primitive Bear,
An overview of the activities of selected APT groups investigated and analyzed by ESET Research in T3 2022 ESET APT Activity Report T3 2022 summarizes the activities of selected advanced persistent threat (APT) groups that were observed, investigated, and analyzed by ESET researchers from September until the end of December 2022. In the monitored timespan,
Mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) Google Fi has reported a breach connected to a third-party system containing “a limited amount” of Google Fi customer data. The tech giant made the announcement in an email to customers earlier today, confirming the stolen data includes information about when an account was activated, data about individual mobile service plans,
by Paul Ducklin Samba, simply put, is a super-useful, mega-popular, open-source reimplementation of the networking protocols used in Microsoft Windows, and its historical importance in internetworking (connecting two different sorts of network together) cannot be underestimated. In the late 1990s, Microsoft networking shed its opaque, proprietary nature and became an open standard known as CIFS,
Feb 01, 2023Ravie LakshmananGaming / Cyber Attack A new attack campaign has targeted the gaming and gambling sectors since at least September 2022, just months prior to the ICE London 2023 gaming industry trade fair event that’s scheduled next week. Israeli cybersecurity company Security Joes is tracking the activity cluster under the name Ice Breaker,