Gareth Corfield reports: BT Security managed to commit the most basic blunder of all after emailing around 150 infosec professionals who attended a jobs fair – using the “cc” field instead of “bcc”. The email, shown to The Register by a non-trivial number of aggrieved recipients, thanked them for attending the Westminster Cyber Expo and popping...
CISOMag reports: An infamous hacking group “Lizard Squad” claimed responsibility for the recent cyber-attack on the Labour Party. The hackers also warned that they are planning to launch a slew of such attacks, the Independent reported. Lizard Squad stated that it has used a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) tool to take down the party’s digital...
Express News Service reports: THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The state government’s move to allow the IT division of Uralungal Labour Contract Cooperative Society (ULCCS) access to sensitive police data, as part of a passport verification project, came in for heavy flak from the Opposition in the Assembly on Wednesday. Alleging that the move would pave way for...
This needs wider dissemination, I think. As seen on The Conversation: In recent weeks, Johannesburg’s computer network was held for ransom by a hacker group called Shadow Kill Hackers. This was the second time in three months a ransomware attack has hit South Africa’s largest city. This time, however, hackers didn’t pose the usual threat. Rather than denying...
CISA Releases Cyber Readiness Recommendations for Small Business