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With mandated spyware downloads to tens of thousands of surveillance cameras equipped with facial-recognition technology, the World Cup in Qatar next month is looking more like a data security and privacy nightmare than a celebration of the beautiful game. Football Read More …
Greece has been rocked by a ‘wiretapping’ scandal as a bombshell report claimed Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis ‘used state intelligence to spy on dozens of people including potential political rivals, journalists and businessmen’. Documento reported that the list of targets Read More …
Vodafone Italia is sending customers notices of a data breach, informing that one of its commercial partners, FourB S.p.A., who operates as a reseller of the telecommunications services in the country, has suffered a cyberattack. According to the notice, the Read More …
OpenSSL today issued a fix for a critical-turned-high-severity vulnerability that project maintainers warned about last week. After days of speculation, infosec professionals and armchair bug hunters received more of a trick than a treat on November 1: two CVE-tagged security Read More …
Royal Mail has experienced a data breach where customers have seen the information of others users. A statement on Royal Mail’s Click and Drop status updates website said: “We have been made aware there was an issue affecting Click & Read More …
Australian insurance firm Medibank has confirmed that hackers accessed all of its customers’ personal data and a large amount of health claims data during a recent ransomware attack. In an announcement published today, the companies warned that an internal investigation Read More …
Microsoft has confirmed one of its own misconfigured cloud systems led to customer information being exposed to the internet, though it disputes the extent of the leak. In a revelation this week, Microsoft’s Security Response Center (MSRC) said it was Read More …
A hospital network in Wisconsin and Illinois fears visitor tracking code on its websites may have transmitted personal information on as many as 3 million patients to Meta, Google, and other third parties. Advocate Aurora Health (AAH) reported the potential Read More …
Verizon warned an undisclosed number of prepaid customers that attackers gained access to Verizon accounts and used exposed credit card info in SIM swapping attacks. “We determined that between October 6 and October 10, 2022, a third party actor accessed Read More …
Woolworths’ MyDeal subsidiary has disclosed a data breach affecting 2.2 million customers, with the hacker trying to sell the stolen data on a hacker forum. MyDeal is an Australian retail marketplace that connects online shoppers with local retailers. Retail giant Read More …