More than 60,000 sensitive US military files have been found on a publicly accessible Amazon server by a security researcher. The files contained passwords for US government systems and the…
Month: June 2017
Password manager OneLogin hit by data breach
Encrypted information has been accessed during a data breach at the password management service, OneLogin. It affects “all customers served by our US data centre” and perpetrators had “the ability…
UK Healthcare Accounts for 43% of all Breaches
By Dan Raywood The British healthcare system experienced 2447 incidents and accounted for 43% of all reported incidents between January 2014 and December 2016. According to data received from the Information…
Putin: Patriotic Russians may be involved in hacking
Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested “patriotic” Russian citizens might be engaged in hacking. Such individuals might be joining “the justified fight against those speaking ill of Russia,” he said.…
China data protection tightened in new laws
Strict new cyber-security legislation is not aimed at limiting foreign companies operating in the country, Chinese officials have said. The law, due to come into effect on 1 June, bans…
Hacked plastic surgery photos published online
More than 25,000 private photographs have been posted online following a data breach at a plastic surgery clinic in Lithuania in March. Passport and credit card details were also stolen…