efani.net News | Rittenhouse lawyers ask judge for mistrial 3rd time
Kyle Rittenhouse’s attorneys asked the judge to declare a mistrial even as the jury in the murder case was deliberating Wednesday, saying the defense received an inferior copy of a potentially crucial video from prosecutors. Judge Bruce Schroeder did not immediately rule on the request, the second mistrial motion from the defense in a week. […]
NASDAQ: CPKI California Pizza Kitchen Data Breach | efani SAFE?
California Pizza Kitchen Data Breach Exposes Personal Information: Murphy Law Firm Investigates Victims’ Legal Claims Murphy Law Firm announces its investigation into claims on behalf of individuals whose information was compromised in the California Pizza Kitchen data breach. On or about September 15, 2021, California Pizza Kitchen discovered suspicious activity on its computer systems. By […]
Survey 20% of Defense Contractors Risk Attack | efani SAFE?
A survey featuring some of the United States’ top defense contractors suggests that about 20% of them are “highly susceptible” to a ransomware attack, with 42% having experienced a data breach in 2020 alone. This data comes from Black Kite, a cybersecurity research firm. Survey respondents included defense contractors working in financial services, health care, […]
Alibaba NYSE: BABA ECS instances targeted Cryptojacking | efani SAFE?
Alibaba ECS instances targeted in new cryptojacking campaign Hackers have been found attacking Alibaba Cloud Elastic Computing Service (ECS) instances to mine Monero cryptocurrency in a new cryptojacking campaign. Security researchers at Trend Micro discovered cybercriminals disabling security features in cloud instances so that they could mine for cryptocurrency. ECS instances come with a preinstalled […]
efani.net News | Vulnerabilities in GitHub NPM packages malicious versions
GitHub fixed serious npm registry vulnerability, will mandate 2FA use for certain accounts GitHub has fixed a serious vulnerability that would have allowed attackers to publish new, malicious versions of any existing package on the npm registry. About the fixed vulnerability The vulnerability, flagged by security researchers Kajetan Grzybowski and Maciej Piechota, existed because several […]
Strip Chat Hacked 65 MILLION Models Exposed Data
AN ADULT cam site security breach has caused the data of millions of users and models to be exposed. StripChat, which is one of the internet’s top five adult cam sites, suffered the breach earlier this month. Security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered that the website exposed its ElasticSearch database cluster online without a password for […]
Cybersecurity experts say public-private partnership key to prevent future attacks
The number of data breaches through the third quarter of 2021 is up 17% over the previous year combined, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center. A study by IBM and the Ponemon Institute says the cost of the average data breach is up to $4.24 million, up from $3.86 million in 2020. Some estimates […]
efani.net News | The biggest healthcare data breaches of 2021
The biggest healthcare data breaches of 2021. More than 40 million patient records have been compromised this past year by incidents reported to the federal government in 2021. Amidst warnings from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation about hacking groups and news from the Department of Justice about ransomware-related arrests, an adage has begun to […]
Creating A World In Which Data Breaches Are Improbable, Not Inevitable
Creating A World In Which Data Breaches Are Improbable, Not Inevitable Recently, one of the folks on my team shared the news about the latest Microsoft breach, in which power apps had caused some data leaks. On the same day, we heard that T-Mobile suffered a data breach. So, my first reaction was, “Ah, it’s […]
FBI Hacker is Selling Robinhood Data on Forum | efani SAFE?
The threat actor is looking for a minimum offer of “five figures” for the data, which includes seven million email addresses The hacker behind last week’s Robinhood data breach is now selling the company’s customer data on a hacking forum. Known as ‘pompompurin’, the threat actor – who also claimed responsibility for the recent hack […]