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Hackers From China Target Vietnamese Military and Government A hacking group related to a Chinese-speaking threat actor has been linked to an advanced cyberespionage campaign targeting government and military organizations in Vietnam. The attacks have been attributed with low confidence to the advanced persistent threat (APT) called Cycldek (or Goblin Panda, Hellsing, APT 27, and Conimes), which is known for using spear-phishing techniques to compromise diplomatic targets in Southeast Asia, Ind...

KOLKATA: Social media giant Facebook has become embroiled in yet another privacy breach controversy, as the personal data of around 53.3 crore users has been allegedly leaked. The breach includes data of 60 lakh users in India as well. According to reports, phone numbers, Facebook IDs and bios, full names, birth dates, locations, even email addresses in some cases have been

April 5, 2021 SHOW TRANSCRIPT Information for more than 500 million Facebook users has been found on a website used by hackers and this isnt the first time the platform has had security issues.  The details appear to be years old, but includes names, emails, birthdates and phone numbers. Facebook said they knew about this issue in 2019 and had fixed it the same year. 

  Crisis management expert Edward Segals new book on crisis management, "Crisis Ahead", has received a silver medal in the 2021 Axiom Business Book Awards in the Marketing, Advertising and PR category.  The Axiom Business Book Awards are intended to bring increased recognition to exemplary business books and their creators, with the understanding that business people are an information-hungry segment of the population, eager to...

Ubiquitis Breach Notification: The No Evidence Hedge May 5, 2021 euroinfosec) • April 5, 2021     Get Permission Ubiquiti sells internet-connected surveillance cameras, but it was apparently failing to watch its own networks closely for signs of hack attacks. When a breached business says it has "no evidence" that attackers either stole data or used it to commit fraud, take the claim with a grain of salt. Unfortunately, many organizations...

With pandemic disrupting businesses and with remote working becoming reality, cyber criminals have been busy exploiting vulnerabilities. Year 2020 saw one of the largest numbers of data breaches and the numbers seem to be only rising. According to Kaspersky’s telemetry, when the world went into lockdown in March 2020, the total number of bruteforce attacks against remote desktop protocol (RDP) jumped from 93.1 million worldwide in February 2020 to 277.4 million 2020 in March—a 197 per cen...

The website "Have I been pwned," can tell you if your email account or password has been compromised.

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Personal details of 6.1 million Facebook users in India leaked online SECTIONS Last Updated: Apr 05, 2021, 09:38 PM IST Share Synopsis "This is old data that was previously reported on in 2019. We found and fixed this issue in August 2019," a Facebook spokesperson says in response to the allegation made by Alon Gal, co-founder and chief technical officer of cybersecurity firm Hudson Rock. Reuters Personal data of 533 million Facebook users globally was allegedly leaked online Personal data of 5...

Get Permission A security researcher has found more than 500 million Facebook records made available for free on the darknet, exposing basic user information, including any phone numbers associated with the accounts. Alon Gal, chief technology officer at Hudson Rock, found the 533 million records in a darknet forum. They represent users in 106 countries and contain phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, past locations, birthdates, birthdates and, in some cases, email addresses, a...