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"Data Breaches in US Schools Exposed 37.6M Records"Since 2005, US educational institutions have had 3,713 data breaches, affecting about 37.6 million records. According to Comparitech, 2023 saw a record 954 breaches, up from 139 in 2022 and 783 in 2021. Over 800 institutions w
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"Turla Group Deploys LunarWeb and LunarMail Backdoors in Diplomatic Missions"Two previously undocumented backdoors, "LunarWeb" and "LunarMail," targeted an unnamed European Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and its three diplomatic missions in the Middle East.
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"900k Impacted by Data Breach at Mississippi Healthcare Provider"Mississippi healthcare provider Singing River Health System (SRHS) recently notified roughly 900,000 individuals that their personal information was compromised in an August 2023 ransomware attack.
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"How Attackers Deliver Malware to Foxit PDF Reader Users"According to Check Point researchers, threat actors are exploiting Foxit PDF Reader's flawed alerts to deliver malware via booby-trapped PDFs.
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"NIST Finalizes Updated Guidelines for Protecting Sensitive Information"The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has finalized its updated guidelines for protecting Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) in two publications titled "Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Syste
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"Female Health Apps Misuse Highly Sensitive Data, Study Finds"New research from King's College London and University College London (UCL) delved into the poor data handling practices followed by apps designed for female health monitoring, which put users at risk of privacy and safety issues.
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"FBI Seize BreachForums Hacking Forum Used to Leak Stolen Data"The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has seized BreachForums, a forum that leaked and sold corporate data to cybercriminals. The seizure follows the leak of Europol law enforcement portal data on the website. BreachForums
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"Santander Customer Data Compromised Following Third-Party Breach"Banking giant Santander has recently announced that customer and employee data has been breached following a compromise of a third-party provider.
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"400,000 Linux Servers Hit by Ebury Botnet"According to ESET, the Ebury Linux botnet has continued to grow over the past decade, with about 100,000 systems found to be infected at the end of 2023.
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"US Military Academy Wins First Place at the 2024 NSA Cyber Exercise"The US Military Academy won the sixth National Security Agency (NSA) Cyber Exercise (NCX).
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"Ongoing Campaign Bombards Enterprises with Spam Emails and Phone Calls"Rapid7 researchers have found a social engineering campaign that sends spam emails to enterprises to gain initial access for follow-on exploitation.
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"Adobe Patches Critical Flaws in Reader, Acrobat"Software maker Adobe recently documented 35 security vulnerabilities in a wide range of products and urged users to pay immediate attention to critical severity bugs in its widely deployed Adobe Acrobat and Reader programs.