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Russian Hackers Exploit Old Cisco Routers, Securities Agencies Say
- Saturday, 29 April 2023
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Western security agencies have warned that APT28, the hacking unit with Russia’s GRI military intelligence agency, has been using malware to exploit a vulnerability in Cisco routers that was patched in 2017. So reports CSO.
Read more...Washington Enacts State Law On Cybersecurity
- Saturday, 29 April 2023
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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has signed Senate Bill 5518, which forms a new Cybersecurity Advisory Committee as a subpanel of the state’s Emergency Management Council. So reports KIRO 7 News.
Read more...TikTok Can Now Determine What Floor A User Is On, Cyber Firm Claims
- Saturday, 29 April 2023
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- Written by Security Tech Brief Staff
Internet 2.0, an Australian-U.S. cybersecurity company whose research last year prompted some western authorities to ban TikTok from government-issued devices, has claimed the social video company’s updated code now seeks a user’s altitude data. So reports The Guardian.
Read more...Suspected Pentagon Leaker Nabbed After Searching Word 'Leak'
- Sunday, 23 April 2023
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- Written by Security Tech Brief Staff
Federal law enforcement officials have arrested and charged Jack Texeira, a 21-year-old guardsman in the U.S. Air Force National Guard, over a leak of military documents that disclosed secrets about Russia’s war against Ukraine as well as U.S. spying on allied nations.
Read more...Fortra Breach Hits Four Stanford Hospitals
- Sunday, 23 April 2023
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Stanford has confirmed that patients at four of the university’s hospitals have had their protected health information exposed after a security breach at cybersecurity firm Fortra affected the hospitals’ mental health service vendor, Brightline. So reports Becker’s Health IT.
Read more...Q1 Cybersecurity Venture Funding Tumbles 58% from 2022
- Sunday, 23 April 2023
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- Written by Security Tech Brief Staff
Crunchbase research has found that venture capital funding to cybersecurity firms totaled nearly $2.7 billion in the first quarter of 2023, a precipitous 58% decline from the same period a year ago. So reports Cybersecurity Dive.
Read more...Okta Faces Investor Suit Over Data Breach
- Sunday, 23 April 2023
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Identity and access management provider Okta has been hit with a proposed shareholder class action lawsuit that claims the company withheld information about a January 2022 data breach. So reports Law360.
Read more...Apple TV Suffers Brief Outage for Thousands of Viewers
- Sunday, 23 April 2023
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- Written by Security Tech Brief Staff
Apple TV has restored service after an April 16 outage that lasted a few hours for thousands of U.S. users, says outage tracker Downdetector.com, an outage tracker. So reports Reuters.
Read more...Human Error Caused D.C. Health Data Breach: Official
- Sunday, 23 April 2023
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A leading official announced that a “human mistake” was to blame in a recent data breach of Washington, D.C.’s health insurance exchange that affected thousands of people. So reports the Associated Press.
Read more...Almost One-third Of IT Pros Admit Burying Data Breaches: Survey
- Sunday, 16 April 2023
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According to a new survey by cybersecurity firm BitDefender, 29.9% of IT and security pros indicate they had covered up a data breach as opposed to disclosing it. So reports VentureBeat.
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