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The Reserve Bank's use of the Accellion FTA solution criticised as hack costs reach $3.5 million.

Reseller News Join Reseller News Sign up to gain exclusive access to email subscriptions, event invitations, competitions, giveaways, and much more.Sign up now How Whangarei District Council escaped the Accellion FTA hacks Councils Accellion FTA software was hosted in the cloud and not subject to the first of two breaches. Whangarei, Northland Credit: Rob ONeill Whangarei District Council has emerged as another local user of the file sharing software at the centre of the hack of t...

Reseller News Join Reseller News Sign up to gain exclusive access to email subscriptions, event invitations, competitions, giveaways, and much more.Sign up now GCSB posts advice on ICT supply chain risks Advice comes in wake of high profile attacks on the Reserve Bank of NZ and the New Zealand Stock Exchange Lisa Fong (National Cyber Security Centre) Credit: Supplied The Government Communications Security Bureau’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has released guidance to he...

State of the Marketplace: A Conversation With Dave DeWalt Compliance Compliance SecurityEditor) • April 14, 2021     24 Minutes    Twitter Dave DeWalt, founder, NightDragon Security Dave DeWalt, former CEO of FireEye and McAfee, has been appointed vice chair of the board of LogDNA, a log management company, and he’s committed to the popular “shift left” movement. But he’s also got a keen eye o...

Mr. Vaze was arrested on March 13 by the central agency that was charged with sections of Unlawful Activities Prevention Act. After arresting him at 11.50 p.m., the NIA’s spokesperson had said he was arrested for his “role and involvement in placing explosives laden vehicle near Carmichael Road.”

Stanford, UC warn of massive data breach FacebookTwitterEmail Stanford University said on April 2 that its medical school had suffered a data breach and that it was working with a cyber forensics firm to determine whose personal data was stolen. The University of California was also targeted.Paul Sakuma / Associated Press Stanford University and the University of California are warning users of their computer systems to take extra caution following a nationwide cyber attack that affects its com...

Ransomware gang leaks data from Stanford, Maryland universities By Personal and financial information stolen from Stanford Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB), and the University of California was leaked online by the Clop ransomware group. The threat actors obtained the documents after hacking the universities Accellion File Transfer Appliance (FTA) software used to share and store sensitive information. Data stolen in the attack targeting Stanford Medicines Accellion server inc...

Photo: Sean Gallup (Getty Images) A number of prominent U.S. colleges have become the newest, unlucky recipients of a cybersecurity migraine currently affecting dozens of organizations all over the world. Advertisement You may have heard something about Accellion—the global cloud provider whose secure-file transfer product (called FTA) was beset by a hacking campaign back in December. If you haven’t heard about it, you can read a recent run-down of the whole trainwreck here. All you really...

Reseller News Join Reseller News Sign up to gain exclusive access to email subscriptions, event invitations, competitions, giveaways, and much more.Sign up now "Those are the facts": Reserve Bank governor stands his ground on breach timeline Orr: "We never received notification until after we had a third-party malicious attacker inside of our system" Adrian Orr (Reserve Bank of NZ) Credit: Supplied Reserve bank governor Adrian Orr told Parliament that while there were shortcomings...

Get Permission Supermarket and pharmacy chain Kroger says PHI of 368,000 individuals was exposed in an Accellion hacking incident. The list of healthcare organizations affected by recent vendor security incidents - including the recent attack against Accellion - continues to grow. For example, the supermarket and pharmacy chain Kroger reports that more than 368,000 individuals protected health information was affected by the Accellion hacking incident, according to the Department of Health and...