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Hackers took down one of the world’s most advanced telescopes, The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) Observatory.
ALMA has been hit with a cyberattack that has taken its website offline and forced it to suspend all observations. ALMA helped take the first image of a black hole and it is the largest ground-based astronomical project in the world. ALMA is powered by thousands of astronomers worldwide that rely on its observations and the some 300…
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Hackers stole corporate data through a phishing scam, gaining access to the hard drive and shared drives of one of its employees. The data breach is quite serious because the company’s CTO, Rafeh Masood resigned because of this incident. Here is the company’s Form 8K filing to SEC informing shareholders about the hack. In the…
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Dropbox got hacked
Cybercriminals stole 130GB of private developer Github repositories with source code, credentials and API keys. Hackers gained access to one of its private GitHub accounts using employee credentials stolen in a phishing attack. Password credentials, API keys used by Dropbox developers, names and email addresses belonging to Dropbox employees, current and past customers, sales leads,…
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Chegg Gets Hacked
Chegg, an education company gets hacked with 40 million student data. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) files lawsuit against Chegg, which has experienced four data breaches in 3 years. Hackers gained access to company databases, exposing personal information such as names, email addresses, and passwords in addition to students’ religion, sexual orientation, disabilities, and parents’ income.…
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Shangri-la hotel chain got hacked
The properties hacked: Island Shangri-La, Hong KongKerry Hotel, Hong KongKowloon Shangri-La, Hong KongShangri-La Apartments, SingaporeShangri-La SingaporeShangri-La Chiang MaiShangri-La Far Eastern, TaipeiShangri-La Tokyo Hackers stole databases, which contained guest’s contact information, information on dates of birth, identity documents, passport numbers, and credit card details.
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European Union website got hacked
Today European Union website is hacked with a DDOS attack shutting down the servers. OMG! ? The European Parliament’s website came under a cyberattack by a pro-Moscow group only hours after lawmakers overwhelmingly backed a resolution calling Russia a state sponsor of terrorism. Russian hackers couldn’t stand the resolution and they took down their servers.…
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French overseas department of Guadeloupe got hacked
The French overseas department of Guadeloupe, a Caribbean island, has been hit by a cyber attack that’s disrupted government services. This is a massive large scale attack, Where is Guadeloupe? It is part of the Leeward Islands, the northern portion of the Lesser Antilles chain of the West Indies.
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Schools in Hillsdale, and Jackson counties, Michigan got hacked with Ransomware this week
Schools in Hillsdale, and Jackson counties, Michigan got hacked with Ransomware this week. OMG! ? What happened? Cybercriminals shutdown critical operating systems, including heating, telephones and classroom computers, projectors and networks. Note: The hackers took down the heating systems? Oh no.
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An entire country got hacked this week
ANOTHER DAY AND ANOTHER HACK. An entire country got hacked this week. Yes, you heard it right. Every person in this country got hacked. OMG! ? Cybercriminals took down the entire country Pacific island, Vanuatu. The Vanuatu’s government has been shutdown offline for more than 11 days after a suspected cyberattack on servers in the…
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The Department of Defense (DoD) unveiled Zero Trust strategy
The Department of Defense (DoD) officially unveiled a zero-trust strategy and roadmap today laying out how DoD components should direct their cybersecurity policies and efforts in the coming years. What does this mean? Every day companies are getting hacked. The old way of securing things does not work anymore. Zero trust is the way to…
