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(In) Secure Digest Halloween Edition: What Spooked IS Specialists in October
The Halloween agenda includes a million-dollar scam, a hacker offended by non-recognition of merit, and frighteningly frequent attacks on the game industry representatives.
The New Portion of Insider Incidents: Cases of Remote Employee and CISO
In this incident roundup, we are exploring two cases of customer data leakage with insiders being accused of security rules violation.
Qatar’s Data Breach Fine & Kenya’s Move Toward Digital Inclusion
In this week’s new roundup, we are exploring the details of the data breach that occurred in Qatar and how Africa is making its way to digital safety.
09.10
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(In) Secure Digest: Cyberattack on Dell, Fortinet Cloud Leak, Blackmailing Employee
A roundup of high-profile IS incidents that occurred or came to light last month is here. During September, we witnessed attacks on IS vendors and the leaking of data on millions of Americans.
UAE Warns Residents About Cyber Traps
Today we will talk about the UAE authorities' warnings regarding malicious advertising and... sharing secrets with ChatGPT.
Rising Breach Costs, AI’s Double-Edged Sword, and HealthEquity’s Data Drama
In the last IS news roundup for July, we cover the key findings of IBM and Ponemon's Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024 and share details of the HealthEquity case.
(In) Secure Digest: Wiped Out Servers, Phish in Sales, and Summer Leak Season
In our June review, we look at recent information security incidents reported in the media during the first month of summer.
01.07
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Beware of Fakes and Exes
This week’s news digest is about how fired and fake employees can cause disasters.
Cybersecurity Challenges Revealed by New Research & the Epsilon Case Completion
In this week’s cyber news review, we are going to delve deeper into the recent CDW research findings and the Epsilon case updates.
(In) Secure Digest: IS specialist changing team, biometrics theft by aggrieved contractors and electronic signature platform hack
We have compiled a monthly roundup of high-profile IS incidents that were reported in May.
(In) Secure Digest: if There was Darwin Awards in 2024
In April, we traditionally ask our Leading Analyst Sergio Bertoni to share his selection of funny, ridiculous and silly IS incidents.
(In) Secure Post New Year Digest: a Surprise Email, an Accidental Leak, Work on Mistakes
The time has come to reveal, what happened while we were on New Year's holidays.
01.02
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(In) Secure Digest The New Year Edition: Stolen Code, DNA leaks and Safe Data Leak
In the final digest of 2023, we’ll tell about stealing corporate secrets, putative labourers, genetic information leaks and very vindictive employees.
Two Recent Information Security Incidents Resulted Into Exposure of Customer Data
Here's another roundup of the latest information security incidents you need to know about today.
Deepfake Science Basics: How are They Created and how to Detect Them
Alex Drozd, CISO of SeachInform, sheds light on deepfakes and how they are created.
(In)Secure Digest: Pizza Lovers' Data Theft, a Million-dollar Fine and Aircraft Suppliers’ Data Leak
It's time for the traditional monthly review of "classic" and non-trivial IS incidents reported by the media.
A Case in Point: You’ve got Mail
Recently, it was the birthday of electronic mail. To celebrate the occasion, we would like to share the case study from our practice that involves email.
E-mail Compromise: How to Protect Business Against BEC-attacks
The senior analyst at SearchInform, Sergio Bertoni reveals, why BEC attacks are so popular and how to protect against them.
27.09
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A Case in Point: Set a Search Rule to Catch a Thief
It's time to present a compelling case study that underscores the criticality of maintaining comprehensive visibility into your organization's file system.
15.09
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Ransom Demand for Human Error and Two-year Data Leakage
Today we will examine two recent instances of data disclosure, both of which, as is often the case, have resulted in serious financial and reputational losses for the companies involved.
(In)Secure digest: “shadowy” Amazon, de-anonymization of Northern Ireland police officers and pseudo-hackers
In our traditional (in)Secure digest we’ve gathered news on the recent leaks.
Best Digital Forensics Certifications
The article helps you answer the three most important questions when choosing the right IT security and digital forensics certification.
What Are the Major Security Threats That Can Be Expected Through an Email?
Learn more about the email risks and how to counter them.
16.02
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Large fines are imposed on game developer for data related incidents
The Epic Games, developer of Fortnite videogame is fined $520 million.
23.12
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Recent Cyber Incidents
Rise in ransomware attacks and global threats
27.10
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Financial Fraud Cases
The biggest investment fraudsters
Fraud Cases
How to detect some common types of fraud and what may you do about it
Examples of Cybercrime Cases
What is cybercrime and examples of a few biggest cybercrimes
Emerging Cyber Threats
An overview of cyber threats, endangering companies and organizations worldwide in 2022.
Top 10 Cybersecurity Threats
What are the bigget information security threats this year?
15.09
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Biggest Corporate Frauds
An overview of some biggest cases of corporate frauds in history.
Best Endpoint Protection
What is an efficient endpoint protection and a slight overvierw of best solutions.
Best Computer Security Protection
How to ensure best computer security protection?
(In)secure digest: the smell of data leaks, deep fake in the Zoom and an option of becoming the nobility member for only €1000
In August many employees are still on a vacation, however, this doesn’t refer to fraudsters, judicial and law enforcement system representatives.
Onetwotrip ticket booking system users’ data leak
Onetwotrip clients' data leaked
24.08
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The ugly in the realm of beautiful, two new personal data leaks’ details revealed
Detail of two more data leaks revealed
A real fortune was made on phone unlocking and unblocking
An American resident managed to earn $25 million by a phone unlocking and unblocking service.
Avaya system administrator: illegal licenses generating and selling
Avaya system administrator was accused of fraud. It was stated that together with accomplices he sold software with additional options for IP-ATC. The overall sum of their financial operations exceeds $88 million.
29.06
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More data sent to dark web
The sourse of the incident is still being explored.
Major fraud cases in healthcare revealed this year
Pfizer discovers an insider working for a competitor, whereas Genentech hit the news with a deep-rooted story months ago.
26.11
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Former employees and foolhardy ransomware attackers
Several information security incidents which have happened recently are all based on utter carefreeness
(In)Secure digest: default passwords, sensitive info for free, and phisher salary
Every month we collect "classic" and non-trivial incidents on Infosecurity across the world and in Russia in particular. Here is our first digest for 2021.
iPhones which weren't meant for selling
An employee of a recycling company profiteered from selling Apple products
ABSA leak might still have impact
How is ABSA bank doing after an employee’s security policy violation?
2020 infosec in pictures
You've been with us all this year and you remember all 2020 news we've shared with you. Let's smile and frown at it together!
BMW and other car owners got their data breached
UK car owners got their data compromised. About half of a million car owners got their data exposed, the individuals including BMW, Hyundai, SEAT, Mercedes and Honda owners.
06.07
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Corporate espionage
A little-known evil that is occurring today is the phenomenon of industrial espionage. In fact, this is a problem that has been around for quite some time.
02.07
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A vulnerability in a WordPress plugin
Credit card "skimmerware" - can you tell if a virtual transaction is safe?
29.06
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Intricate fraud impacting Electrolux revealed
Electrolux, Solid Bridge got affected in BEC attacks.
08.06
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