Iranian hackers linked to Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security were responsible for the Los Angeles transit system breach that disrupted online services.
The Loop DoS attack essentially generates an endless chain of error messages that will eventually exhaust all available resources and take vulnerable systems offline, with no way for the attacker to stop it once it is initiated.
Organizations found to be responsible for a privacy breach now face a maximum penalty of AUD 50 million, 30% of adjusted annual domestic turnover, or three times the value of any benefit obtained through the misuse of the leaked information.
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.
Only 55% of the organizations surveyed are carrying any cyber insurance at all. And of those that are insured, just under 20% have more than $600,000 in coverage; not enough to meet the usual ransomware payment, let alone the potential cleanup costs.
The publication of the government's response to the sprawling consultation results marks a more specific direction for the intended changes to the UK Data Protection Act.
A lawsuit filed in California is accusing Google's "Gemini" AI assistant of spying on private communications, citing an undeclared change in policy from opt-in to opt-out that took place in October of this year.
Acer suffered another cyber attack in Taiwan by the Desorden group that hacked the company in India. Hackers warned of Acer's poor cybersecurity practices and vulnerable Asian servers.
Fast food chain Chick-fil-A has experienced a data breach stemming from credential stuffing attacks using login details from a third-party source to compromise accounts.
Owner of a botnet has leaked the access credentials for more than 515,000 servers and claimed they were changing business models to make use of cloud service providers instead.
