Classified Pentagon data was mistakenly left exposed on an unsecured public cloud server, cyber-security researchers have discovered. The 100GB of data is from a failed joint intelligence-sharing programme run by…
Month: November 2017
Over a Quarter of Ransomware Now Targets Corporates
Phil Muncaster The number of ransomware attacks targeting business users in 2017 rose to 26% as the number of new families discovered halved, according to new stats released this week…
Second-Hand Storage Devices Offer a Trove of Personal and Business Info
Tara Seals Buying second-hand data storage devices, like remote hard drives, is a fairly common practice—but all too often, those devices contain traces of data that enterprising new users can…
UK Shipping services firm, Clarksons, Suffers Data Breach
29th November 2017 CLARKSON PLC (“Clarksons” “the Company”) Notice of cyber security incident Clarkson PLC confirms that it was subject to a cybersecurity incident which involved unauthorised access to the…
Apple rushes to fix major password bug
Dave Lee, North America technology reporter Apple has said it is working to fix a serious bug within its Mac operating system. The flaw in MacOS High Sierra – the…
Canadian admits hacking Gmail
Karim Baratov pleads guilty to ransacking web accounts for ‘mystery’ paymasters By Iain Thomson A Canadian hacker for hire has admitted ransacking webmail accounts for miscreants accused of orchestrating the…