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Is it still a good idea to require users to change their passwords? For as long as corporate IT has been in existence, users have been required to change their passwords periodically. In fact, the need for scheduled password changes may be one of the most long-standing of all IT best practices. Recently, however, things have started to change. Microsoft has reversed course on the best practices that it has had in place for decades and no longer recommends that organizations require users to cha...

Peloton’s Leaky API Potentially Exposed Riders’ Personal Information May 6, 2021 06:36 GMT   ·  Comment      Pelotons Leaky API According to a report from TechCrunch, an outdated version of Peloton’s API, the program that enables the company’s bikes and recall treadmills to communicate with its servers, might have revealed private customer profiles. Peloton claims to have over 3 million subscribers and over 1 million connected fitness profiles, so the leak may be massive....

Data Breach at New England’s Largest Energy Provider - "A misconfiguration error has exposed personal data belonging to customers of New Englands largest energy provider." Why this is important: New Englands largest provider of energy services, Eversource, announced an error with the security protocols on one of its cloud data storage folders, exposing the personal data of approximately 11,000 customers in eastern Massachusetts. The data exposed includes names, addresses (billing and service...

According to a report by AusCERT and BDO, data breaches more than doubled in 2020. With employees working remotely, cloud adoption soaring, and new technologies being rolled out to facilitate transformation, enterprises have put themselves into a high-risk position with regards to their security, and the cyber criminals know that. As noted by the report: “2020 was a cyber ‘trial by fire’ for many, so it’s unsurprising our survey found 20 per cent of respondents are less confident or mor...

THE STANDARD SCI & TECH Mobile banking app. China’s main internet watchdog has found that 33 mobile phone apps have broken data privacy rules by collecting data without consent, among other issues. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), in a statement published on Saturday on its official website, identified map apps, those used for instant messaging and others with more functions, such as the downloading of emojis. The CAC said the programmes collected data without consent, more info...

New Chinese Malware Targeted Russias Largest Nuclear Submarine Designer A threat actor believed to be working on behalf of Chinese state-sponsored interests was recently observed targeting a Russia-based defense contractor involved in designing nuclear submarines for the naval arm of the Russian Armed Forces. The phishing attack, which singled out a general director working at the Rubin Design Bureau, leveraged the infamous "Royal Road" Rich Text Format (RTF) weaponizer to deliver a previously ...

Attackers Dwell Time Plummets as Ransomware Hits Continue May 20, 2021 Compliance May 4, 2021 Compliance Compliance euroinfosec) • May 3, 2021     Source: FireEye Mandiant "Dwell time," which refers to how long hackers hang out in an organizations network before being discovered, has historically been a key metric for expressing whether hack-attack victims are getting better at detecting intruders. The longer attacke...

Data breach exposed 345,000 sensitive SolGen documents in April —British cybersecurity firm By JON VIKTOR D. CABUENAS, GMA News Published May 3, 2021 12:18pm Hundreds of thousands of documents from the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) containing sensitive information were made accessible to the public in a data breach last month, a British cybersecurity firm said. According to TurgenSec Ltd., some 345,000 documents were accessible to anyone with a browser and internet connection...

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