John Kelsey Gammell, an ex-employee at point-of-sale (POS) services firm Washburn Computer Group, has been convicted to 15 years in prison for DDoS attacks.
Trustwave investigates hacker incidents in which attackers gained root -- or administrative-level access -- to a company's network to install ransomware.
Approximately 9.2 million New York business & consumer records were exposed due to data breaches in 2017, the state's Office of the Attorney General reports.
The FBI issues VPNFilter cyberattack warning, urging consumers to reboot their small office and home office (SOHO) routers in a bid to mitigate a potential worldwide attack.
An IoT botnet called VPNFilter infects more than 500,000 devices worldwide -- placing malware on routers & network attached storage hardware, according to Cisco's Talos business. Russia denies involvement. FBI seeks to shut down botnet.
A non-profit organization in Los Angeles County misconfigures an Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 cloud bucket -- leaving 3 million records exposed, according to the UpGuard Cyber Risk Team.
If you’re looking for data aggregators such as the Dallas, TX-based Securus Technologies and the Carlsbad, CA-headquartered LocationSmart to safeguard your privacy, you’ve got a long wait ahead of you.
Your boss just needs a quick favor -- a simple funds transfer. But it's actually CEO fraud, which is a targeted, one-on-one operation conducted individually by con artists targeting specific companies (and specific individuals at those companies). Trustwave explains.
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