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"PharMerica Discloses Data Breach Impacting 5.8 Million Individuals"National pharmacy network PharMerica recently started sending out notification letters to more than 5.8 million individuals to disclose a data breach that occurred in March. Owned by BrightSpring Health, a provider of home and community-based… -
"Discord Breached After Service Agent Targeted"Discord has recently notified users of a data breach that occurred when a threat actor gained unauthorized access to the support ticket queue of a third-party customer service agent. The company noted that due to the nature of the incident, "it is…
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"The Philadelphia Inquirer Suffers Cyberattack, Newspaper's Largest Disruption in Nearly 30 Years"The Philadelphia Inquirer recently reported a cyberattack that disrupted newspaper operations, the biggest disruption to its publications since a massive blizzard in 1996. The cyberattack prevented the newspaper from being able to print the Sunday…
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"New Technology Developed for Quantum Cryptography Applications"Quantum computing threatens to render the use of classic cryptography for secure communications obsolete. Quantum cryptography applies the laws of quantum mechanics to ensure security. Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) enables two parties to secure a…
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"Millions of Mobile Phones Come Pre-infected With Malware, Say Researchers"According to Trend Micro researchers at Black Hat Asia, millions of Android phones were infected with malicious firmware before they were ever shipped from their factories. Most of the devices affected are Android mobile devices, although smartwatches,…
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"Feds Warn of Rise in Attacks Involving Veeam Software Flaw"Federal authorities have warned the healthcare industry about a rise in cyberattacks against Veeam's backup application. The attacks appear to be linked to the March disclosure of a high-severity vulnerability in the vendor's software. The vulnerability…
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"Lessons From 'Star Trek: Picard' – A Cybersecurity Expert Explains How a Sci-Fi Series Illuminates Today's Threats"Richard Forno, Principal Lecturer in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, emphasizes that the general public's understanding of technology and cybersecurity is often founded on simple stereotypes…
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"Voting Machines Must Be Test Hacked for Certification, Under Proposed Bill"Lawmakers recently introduced bipartisan legislation to strengthen the cybersecurity of US election infrastructure and boost voter confidence by requiring penetration testing as part of voting machine certification. Senators. Mark Warner and Susan…
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"Russia-Affiliated CheckMate Ransomware Quietly Targets Popular File-Sharing Protocol"The CheckMate ransomware group has targeted the Server Message Block (SMB) communication protocol to compromise their victims' networks. Cybernews researchers report that the group does not operate a data breach site, which is unusual for a ransomware…
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"Brightly Says SchoolDude Data Breach Spilled 3 Million User Accounts"Software maker Brightly has recently confirmed that hackers stole close to three million SchoolDude user accounts in an April data breach. SchoolDude is a cloud-based work order management system used primarily by schools and universities to submit…
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"Sysco Data Breach Exposes Customer, Employee Data"In an internal memo sent recently, global food distribution company Sysco revealed that it had suffered a data breach earlier in the year when sensitive data on customers, employees, and the business, was stolen by hackers. The company said that it…
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"New DownEx Malware Campaign Targets Central Asia"According to a report by Bitdefender, a previously undocumented malware campaign called DownEx has been targeting government institutions in Central Asia for cyber espionage. The first instance of the malware was discovered in 2022 during a highly…