Mondaq – “Knuddels.de” EUR 20.000 fine
” … The company was the victim of a hacker attack in summer 2018 during which hackers captured personal data. One reason they were able to do this was that customers’ passwords were saved in plain text on the company server. In addition to this, Knuddels had neglected to install the new version of the […]
KnowBe4 – Cyberheist On Bank Causes Shutdown Of All Operations
… Generally, this type of hack starts with a successful spear phishing attack that opens up the victim’s network to the bad guys who then move laterally and compromise critical systems.
BleepingComputer – Info on over 500.000 students and staff exposed in San Diego School District hack.
Personal information belonging to over half a million students … may have been compromised in a data breach incident. An unauthorized person baited the staff with phishing emails to collect credentials to log into the district’s network services.
NackedSecurity – Worst passwords list is out, but this time we’re not scolding users
… they’re still using “123456” as a password. This year, according to SplashData’s annual worst password list, that stale cracker came in at No. 1. Again. “password” was the No. 2 dust bunny to roll out from under the bed…
NewsChannel11 – Unauthorized users could have accessed private information of 7,700 people following ETSU breach
University officials tell News Channel 11 that two unidentified employees clicked on a link in the phishing scam that was sent to their e-mail accounts.
InfoRisk Today – Travel-related breaches: Mitigating the risks
… It is very common for data and devices to be hacked while traveling and for those who were hacked to not even realize it …
Inforisk Today – French cinema chain fires Dutch executives over ‘CEO fraud’
Step one for not falling victim to business email compromise schemes: Senior managers must ensure they have a written and tested plan in place to ensure they don’t fall victim to the schemes, also known as CEO fraud.
Security.nl – Criminelen kapen lopende mailwisseling om malware te verspreiden
Criminelen kapen lopende mailwisselingen om malware te verspreiden, zo waarschuwt anti-virusbedrijf Trend Micro. De aanval begint met een e-mailaccount dat de aanvallers weten te hacken. Vervolgens beantwoorden ze lopende e-mailwisselingen met een e-mail die als bijlage een kwaadaardig Word-document bevat…
TechPulse – Facebook datalek trof 50 miljoen accounts
De website werd namelijk getroffen door de zwaarste hackeraanval in zijn geschiedenis, waardoor de hackers in kwestie toegang kregen tot gebruikersdata van bijna 50 miljoen accounts.
Inforisk – Why was Equifax so stupid about Passwords?
… Equifax managed to compound the severity of its breach by also storing plaintext copies of users’ passwords in a plaintext file …