Category: Kamban
The FBI says that 2023 was a record year for cryptocurrency fraud, with total losses exceeding $5.6 billion, based on nearly 70,000 reports received through the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). This marks a 45% increase in losses compared to the previous year, driven primarily by investment fraud, which accounted for 71% of the total…
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Cybersecurity giant Fortinet has confirmed it suffered a data breach after a threat actor claimed to steal 440GB of files from the company’s Microsoft Sharepoint server. Fortinet is one of the largest cybersecurity companies in the world, selling secure networking products like firewalls, routers, and VPN devices. The company also offers SIEM, network management, and EDR/XDR…
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‘With our technology, AI can only access and analyze data if our customers have opted in,’ says Nicole Reineke, distinguished product manager of AI strategy at N-able. ‘If you haven’t opted in, we’re not touching it. This is our baseline for ensuring data privacy and customer trust.’ N-able has created four pillars of AI with…
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Hackers have been leveraging publicly available exploit code for two critical vulnerabilities in the WhatsUp Gold network availability and performance monitoring solution from Progress Software. The two flaws exploited in attacks since August 30 are SQL injection vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2024-6670 and CVE-2024-6671 that allow retrieving encrypted passwords without authentication. Despite the vendor addressing the security issues…
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U.K.’s National Crime Agency says it arrested a 17-year-old teenager who is suspected of being connected to the cyberattack on Transport for London, the city’s public transportation agency. “A teenager has been arrested in Walsall by the National Crime Agency, as part of the investigation into a cyber security incident affecting Transport for London (TfL),”…
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Transport for London (TfL) has determined that the cyberattack on September 1 impacts customer data, including names, contact details, email addresses, and home addresses. The urban transportation agency had informed the public on September 2 about an ongoing cybersecurity incident, assuring customers that at the time there was no evidence of data being compromised. Last Friday, TfL staff…
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GitLab has released critical updates to address multiple vulnerabilities, the most severe of them (CVE-2024-6678) allowing an attacker to trigger pipelines as arbitrary users under certain conditions. The release is for versions 17.3.2, 17.2.5, and 17.1.7 for both GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE), and patches a total of 18 security issues as part of the bi-monthly…
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‘Throughout Fiscal 2025, we remain committed to disciplined cost management … We anticipate these actions will result in a continued reduction in our overall headcount,” the company stated in a quarterly business filing with the SEC. Layoffs at Dell Technologies are expected to be an ongoing part of business with more cuts expected before the…
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Members of the North Korean hacker group Lazarus posing as recruiters are baiting Python developers with coding test project for password management products that include malware. The attacks are part of the ‘VMConnect campaign’ first detected in August 2023, where the threat actors targeted software developers with malicious Python packages uploaded onto the PyPI repository.…
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Starting October 1st, WordPress.org accounts that can push updates and changes to plugins and themes will be required to activate two-factor authentication (2FA) on their accounts. The decision is part of the platform’s plugin review team effort to reduce the risk of unauthorized access, which could lead to supply-chain attacks. “Accounts with commit access can push…
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