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South Korea's Cyber Reform Shows the Risk of Punishing Breach Discovery
16+ hour, 13+ min ago (279+ words) When public sector managers face penalties for discovered hacks, organizations risk creating dangerous incentives to conceal network intrusions rather than uncover them. South Korea's new cybersecurity accountability reform seeks to address a genuine vulnerability, but simultaneously exposes a deep managerial…...
Hackers Target Sierra Leone and Ghana Websites, Raising Fears of Online Scams
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (248+ words) Unknown hackers have targeted websites using Sierra Leone’s.sl and Ghana’s.gh internet domains, reportedly in an attempt to redirect users to fraudulent websites and expose them to online scams. Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Information and Civic Education announced on…...
MACC foils around 90,000 cyberattacks every day, says director
10+ hour, 29+ min ago (368+ words) PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) detects and foils an average of 80,000 to 90,000 cyberattack attempts every day to protect its databases and information. MACC Records and Information Management Division director Zuhairie Abu Bakar said the information handled by the…...
LabCorp will pay $2.3 million to 44 states for 2019 data breach
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (222+ words) North Carolina’s attorney general Jeff Jackson has announced that he and 44 other attorneys general have reached a $2.3 million settlement with Burlington-based Lab-Corp over a data breach that occurred in 2019. According to Jackson’s office, this particular data breach concerned millions of…...
Discord Security Bot 'Double Counter' Hacked, Exposing Data on Roughly 28 Million Accounts
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (491+ words) Double Counter, a Discord server protection bot, suffered a multi-stage hacking attack that exposed approximately 28 million Discord IDs and usernames, around 27 million IP addresses, and roughly 1 million email addresses. The attacker exploited a vulnerability in an analytics tool on a…...
New Orleans tech company facing multiple lawsuits after data breach
2+ day, 43+ min ago (596+ words) New Orleans tech company IDScan.net is facing nearly two dozen lawsuits alleging it failed to protect consumers' personal information after a data breach this year made images of millions of drivers licenses available for purchase on the dark web....
California Data Brokers Report Over 60 Million Profile Deletions
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (79+ words) Bloomberg Law News Data brokers operating in California report having deleted more than 60 million consumer profiles via the state’s newly launched data deletion platform, a state official said Friday. California’s first-in-the-country data deletion mechanism, known as DROP, lets Californians request…...
Springfield Public Schools hack compromised some staff Social Security numbers, district says
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (212+ words) A month after a “cyber incident” forced Springfield Public Schools to close for four days, the district says it’s still on the mend, but making progress. That being said, the number of people who may have had their records compromised…...
Waco school employee's data exposed in security breach
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (137+ words) 25 News KXXV A Waco Independent School District employee was notified that Frontline Education experienced a data security incident on August 14, which exposed district employee and job applicant information The information exposed included employee and job applicant social security numbers, as…...
Overseas Criminal Record Checks
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (167+ words) If you are an enhanced DBS applicant and have resided in another country for more than six months within the past ten years, you are also required to complete an Overseas Crminal Record Check via APCS (the company we use…...