Month: July 2024
Roblox announced late last week that it suffered a data breach impacting attendees of the 2022, 2023, and 2024 Roblox Developer Conference attendees. Roblox is an online gaming and game creation platform popular among younger audiences that design, create, and share games with a large community of over 200 million active users. The company hosts…
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CRN breaks down the 10 coolest cloud computing startup companies that are making waves in 2024 around AI, Kubernetes, multi-cloud networking and other key cloud markets. The need for new and improved cloud computing solutions is being met head-on by startups in 2024 that are focusing on infrastructure optimization, artificial intelligence and cloud management. From…
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“We’re a software vendor and we sell to financial institutions and we sell to the government and in a lot of cases, the requirements of those organizations get passed to us,” says Lindner, who is covered under his company’s D&O policy. “So, while we’re not a public company, we still have to abide by breach…
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Jul 08, 2024The Hacker NewsCybersecurity / Enterprise Security Events like the recent massive CDK ransomware attack – which shuttered car dealerships across the U.S. in late June 2024 – barely raise public eyebrows anymore. Yet businesses, and the people that lead them, are justifiably jittery. Every CISO knows that cybersecurity is an increasingly hot topic…
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OpenAI, headquartered in San Francisco, confirmed the breach to employees as well as the board of directors in April 2023 in an all-hands call but opted not to make it public. The company reasoned that no customer or partner data was compromised, and they believed the hacker was an individual, not a state-sponsored actor, the…
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Jul 08, 2024NewsroomMalware / Cyber Threat Financial institutions in Latin America are being threatened by a banking trojan called Mekotio (aka Melcoz). That’s according to findings from Trend Micro, which said it recently observed a surge in cyber attacks distributing the Windows malware. Mekotio, known to be actively put to use since 2015, is known…
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Jul 08, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Software Security Four unpatched security flaws, including three critical ones, have been disclosed in the Gogs open-source, self-hosted Git service that could enable an authenticated attacker to breach susceptible instances, steal or wipe source code, and even plant backdoors. The vulnerabilities, according to SonarSource researchers Thomas Chauchefoin and Paul Gerste, are…
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Jul 08, 2024NewsroomPrivacy / Internet Censorship Apple removed a number of virtual private network (VPN) apps in Russia from its App Store on July 4, 2024, following a request by Russia’s state communications watchdog Roskomnadzor, Russian news media reported. This includes the mobile apps of 25 VPN service providers, including ProtonVPN, Red Shield VPN, NordVPN…
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Technical debt can be described as an accumulation of fixes and outdated systems badly in need of updating. And infrastructure, because of the size and cost of building and maintaining public and private projects such as water systems, electrical grids, telecommunications systems, and transportation systems, is particularly prone to an accumulation of such debt. “Technical…
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