New report shows nearly 75 percent of U.S. federal agencies are still woefully unprepared and deemed to be “at risk” or “at high risk” of a cyber attack.
Recent Instagram data scraping by HYP3R has raised many privacy concerns as the trusted Facebook marketing partner was found scraping and re-packaging social media data for advertisers.
A joint operation by Meta and law enforcement authorities from 10 countries has taken down 150,000 scam accounts and nabbed 21 suspected masterminds of online fraud.
Consumer trust has taken a hit over the past year. Retailers now need to offer identity protection services to regain confidence of holiday shoppers.
The FTC reported that identity theft doubled during the pandemic as scammers targeted COVID-19 relief payments to individuals and government-sponsored loans for small businesses.
Washington is the latest state in which Google has settled a location tracking lawsuit, adding to a list that has cost it a little over half a billion dollars to date. Lawsuits date back to a 2018 probe that found Google apps and services were continuing to track and log data even after users had changed privacy settings.
CISA: Admin Credentials of a Former Employee Leveraged to Compromise a State Government Organization
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) discovered that a threat actor compromised a state government organization using a former employee’s leaked admin credentials.
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.
A set of documents obtained by Sky News, allegedly obtained from the Iranian cyber command, details plans by Iran to do advanced real-world damage with cyber attacks. Targets include retail fuel pumps and container ships.
While only 14,500 accounts were compromised in the relatively small credential stuffing attack that successfully hit the Canadian government, highly sensitive financial and personal information were exposed.
