In total, the cyber attack on Indonesia’s national data center impacted about 200 government agencies. Travel and immigration saw the most dramatic impacts, but also received priority attention and have largely been restored at this point.
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Scott Ikeda is a technology futurist and writer for more than 15 years. He travels extensively throughout Asia and writes about the impact of technology on the communities he visits. Over the last 5 years, Scott has grown increasingly focused on the future landscape of big data, surveillance, cybersecurity and the right to privacy.
A leak on a hacking forum that exposed internal AMD data appears to have been confirmed by the company, as it acknowledged that an unnamed third-party vendor involved in product assembly was breached. Questions remain about the extent of the data breach, however.
A cyber attack on London hospitals that has unfolded over the course of June has had a devastating impact on the city's blood supply, and has caused hundreds of operations to be postponed.
The situation is very similar to the assorted US bans on TikTok, but concerns about Kaspersky products are not new among federal agencies; the national government banned its civilian agencies from using them in 2017.
Spain's statement on privacy concerns notes that the election tools gather the name, IP address, age and gender of Facebook and Instagram users, without an indication that this much personal data could be tied to what political content voters view and interact with.
The attack has been attributed to an older remote access trojan that was able to take out 49% of the modems from the ISP's ASN, in what is believed to be a targeted cyber attack intended to cause a prolonged outage of internet routers.
An internal Google document not meant for public view catalogs a long string of privacy breaches previously unknown outside of the company. While each of the items in the database leak is small and deals with incidents that may have involved just one individual, there are thousands in total, spanning six years of company history.
A hacker with the threat group ShinyHunters appears to have confirmed the attack to a security research firm and claims that cloud storage company Snowflake, which is used by numerous major corporations, is the source of the the Ticketmaster data breach.
A Europol-headed law enforcement operation has put a serious dent in the dropper malware ecosystem, disrupting the botnets that these dropper systems rely on to function, with over 100 servers and 2,000 domains impacted across about a dozen countries.
560 million Ticketmaster customers have had personal information and possibly payment card data exposed as part of a 1.3 TB theft by the ShinyHunters hacking group. The data breach appeared on the underground hacking forum BreachForums and was put up for ransom for half a million dollars.
