Category: Kamban
Highline Public Schools, a K-12 district in Washington state, has shut down all schools and canceled school activities after its technology systems were compromised in a cyberattack. In a statement issued Monday, the district confirmed that all schools would remain closed, and all activities, including athletics and meetings, would be canceled on September 9. However, the…
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A privacy flaw in WhatsApp, an instant messenger with over 2 billion users worldwide, is being exploited by attackers to bypass the app’s “View once” feature and view messages again. Meta says that WhatsApp’s “View once” feature (introduced three years ago) enables users to share photos, videos, and voice messages privately, seeing that the recipient…
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‘The core of our job is to support and serve our clients effectively,’ says Stanley Louissant, founder and principal of New Jersey-based MSP Fluid Designs. ‘Keeping that focus will always lead to success.’ Stanley Louissaint started his MSP in 2001 as a one-man shop. Despite remaining the sole employee of his MSP, he’s grown a…
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Image: MidjourneyUpdate September 09, 08:32 EDT: Revised title and story to include that the Avis data breach impacted over 299,000 customers. American car rental giant Avis notified customers that unknown attackers breached one of its business applications last month and stole some of their personal information. According to data breach notification letters sent to impacted…
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Payment gateway provider Slim CD has disclosed a data breach that compromised credit card and personal data belonging to almost 1.7 million individuals. In the notification sent to impacted clients, the company says that hackers had access to its network for nearly a year, between August 2023 and June 2024. Slim CD is a provider of…
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A new variant of the ongoing sextortion email scams is now targeting spouses, saying that their husband or wife is cheating on them, with links to the alleged proof. In sextortion emails, scammers pretend to have hacked your computer to steal images or videos of you performing sexual acts and demand that you send a…
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From zero-day exploits to polymorphic malware, today’s organizations must protect themselves against increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. But while these types of complex attack vectors may be making the news, the reality is that your organization can’t afford to neglect the persistent threat of brute force attacks. What brute force methods lack in finesse, they make up for in sheer…
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‘We are super excited to scale and become a North America superpower,’ says Blue Mantis CEO Josh Dinneen, who is already in discussions with three potential acquisition targets. Blue Mantis is stepping up its fast growth security-first, next-generation technology service provider sales offensive under a new private equity majority owner, Recognize. The New York-headquartered Recognize,…
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Progress Software has issued an emergency fix for a maximum (10/10) severity vulnerability impacting its LoadMaster and LoadMaster Multi-Tenant (MT) Hypervisor products that allows attackers to remotely execute commands on the device. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-7591, is categorized as an improper input validation problem allowing an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access LoadMaster’s management interface…
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A novel side-channel attack dubbed “RAMBO” (Radiation of Air-gapped Memory Bus for Offense) generates electromagnetic radiation from a device’s RAM to send data from air-gapped computers. Air-gapped systems, typically used in mission-critical environments with exceptionally high-security requirements, such as governments, weapon systems, and nuclear power stations, are isolated from the public internet and other networks to…
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