data security

City of Oakland Ransomware Attack took its systems offline

On February 12th, the City of Oakland, California experienced a ransomware attack which forced their systems offline. The attack impacted…

3 years ago

WhatsApp GDPR violation costs €5.5 million, penalized by Irish DPC

WhatsApp has been fined €5.5 million by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) for violating the GDPR and has been…

3 years ago

Yum! Brands ransomware attack affects KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut

The famous fast-food brands KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and the Habit Burger Grill owned by Yum! Brands have been…

4 years ago

IT teams and MSPs can be affected by ManageEngine security vulnerability

ManageEngine has urged its customers to patch a critical security vulnerability affecting Password Manager Pro, Access Manager and PAM360 Privileged…

4 years ago

France fines Microsoft 60 million euros for poor cookie policies

The National Commission for Technology and Freedoms (CNIL), France's privacy watchdog has fined Microsoft 60 million euros for foisting advertising…

4 years ago

Royal Ransomware Group targets US healthcare organizations for 2 million ransom

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that the country's healthcare organizations are under direct targets after…

4 years ago

SiriusXM vulnerability allows hackers to remotely control your cars

A security vulnerability discovered in several automobiles including Infinity, Nissan, Honda and Acura allow threat actors to execute remote attacks…

4 years ago

Australian new privacy penalty bill can fine firms up to 50 million dollars

Australian new privacy penalty bill has been amended by the Australian Parliament to improve the country's privacy and security posture…

4 years ago

Twitter data breach affects 5.4 million users and more could be at stake

A new data dump with tens of millions of Twitter users has been collected using the same API bug and…

4 years ago

Russian Cybercrime Group steals 50 million passwords from 890K devices

Information stealing malware under the Stealer-as-a-Service model is being distributed by 34 Russian Cybercrime Group. The infostealer has now successfully…

4 years ago