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Flipboard, a popular social sharing and news aggregator service used by over 150 million people, has disclosed that its databases containing account information of certain users have been hacked. According to a public note published yesterday by the company, unknown hackers managed to gain unauthorized access to its systems for nearly 10 months—between June 2, […]
Victoria’s public health system is “highly vulnerable” to a Singapore-like data breach, according to a recent report. As per an auditor general report released recently, the public health system in Victoria is vulnerable to an attack like the one that Singapore had experienced last year. The Singapore data breach had led to the exfiltration of […]
Through the United Kingdom’s Freedom of Information, data and statistics that used to be state-secrets are exposed for public consumption and appreciation. It opens the venue for people from all walks of life to have their individual insights on how the former superpower manages its affairs, for or against its national agenda. Private companies may […]
Since 2017, Hackercombat.com covered the data breach incident of Equifax and all its relevant angles. The latest was just last March 9, 2019, when the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs released their committee report about the result of its probe of the incident. The report included not only the embarrassing situation […]
Python for Data Science is one of the essential parts for those who all are willing to focus on Data science. There are a lot of people who do data science who understand that they need to do more tools to do their work even better. One of the tools that people choose to learn […]
Cybersecurity experts reported that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) presented 17 new charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for alleged violations against the U.S. Espionage Act due to the publication of classified information in the cyber activism platform. If case of being found guilty of all charges, Assange would face a sentence of up […]
A group of hackers failed to deploy security mechanisms to secure the storage where they store hacked accounts and another hacker group hacked it. The story is indeed funny and real. Infamous forum named OGUSERS which is popular amongst hackers for obtaining “OG” Instagram, Twitter usernames, hacked accounts of Domino’s Pizza, Steam, PlayStation Network, and […]
During a recent cybersecurity event in California, U.S., specialists offered a conference discussing the consequences of a cyber attack on a hospital’s systems or medical devices connected to a network; during the conference, experts stated that cyberattacks against hospitals increased over 1200% last year. One of the main questions when thinking about a situation of […]
A group of specialists from the IICS’s information security course has discovered a critical vulnerability in Cisco equipment that, if exploited, could allow a malicious hacker to install backdoors in various company deployments, such as industrial switches, routers and firewall implementations. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-1649, allows threat actors to bypass protection from the Trust […]
Web application penetration testing specialists reported that Salesforce, the well-known software as a service company, suffered a massive disruption to its service over the lasrt weekend. The service was partially restored during the last few hours, although the company’s recovery process is not yet concluded. This massive drop in service was triggered by a script […]
Stack Overflow, the popular Q&A platform for programmers, has revealed in a security update that unknown attackers compromised it. The website, which is now running without any issues, was attacked on May 11. Stack Overflow’s VP of Engineering Mary Ferguson confirmed that “some level of production access was gained.” Ferguson said they didn’t find any […]
The administration of President Donald Trump has banned telecommunications companies operating in the U.S. from using technology and devices developed in some foreign countries after considering that some of these products represent a serious national security risk, report specialists in cybersecurity. This prohibition applies to purchases by U.S. companies in the future, although the cybersecurity […]
The countdown on the website gotsatoshi.com, which promised to reveal the identity of the ‘father of Bitcoin’, ended hours ago and, to anyone’s surprise, no relevant information was revealed, said specialists in cybersecurity. The website not only deceived anyone who believed that the identity of the person (or group of people) behind the world’s first […]
The U.S. Department of Justice State Prosecutors found probable cause to charge 32-year old Fujie Wang, a Chinese national for allegedly responsible for the data breach in Anthem, a health insurance firm, four years ago in 2015. The incident which resulted in Anthem losing control of at least 78.8 million records. Accused as a member […]
Tax Accounting Firm Wolters Kluwer, valued at $4.8 billion is currently suffering a severe malware attack that forced the company to take down their tax returns database since May 6, 2019. A huge portion of the company’s clients are Fortune 500 companies (93%), U.S. banks (90%) and accounting firms (number undisclosed). As a host of […]
We always come across reports of serious security breaches in the health service, and the number has steadily increased. More than a hundred thousand health records were exposed or stolen during this period, affecting the life of the people. This isn’t typical, either. Of all large data breaches across all sectors, hospitals accounted for around […]
We should never be under the impression that it’s the big blunders committed by users and enterprises that lead to big security incidents. It’s sometimes the little mistakes and very minor misconfigurations, mostly those missteps that could be easily avoided, that lead to big security incidents and data breaches. Companies are devastated, huge reputation damages […]
Information security services specialists report two new ransomware attack incidents against some U.S. cities. This time is the turn of the city of Baltimore, Maryland, and Potter County, in the state of Texas. The authorities in Texas are about to complete their cybersecurity incident recovery process; on the other hand, Baltimore County suffered the collapse […]
Binance, cryptocurrency exchange platform, which manages the largest number of daily operations, has become victim of hacking, reported experts from the IICS cybersecurity course. The chairman of this platform, known as CZ Zhao, unveiled the incident through his Twitter account, adding that Binance is now under unscheduled maintenance. Subsequent investigations have confirmed that the severity […]
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) claim to have attacked a building that served as the cyber operations headquarter of the Palestinian jihad movement Hamas last weekend. As reported amongst the cybersecurity community, IDF bombed the building after a joint operation with the Israel Security Agency (known as Shin Bet). The IDF has also ensured that this […]
In 2017, a group of hackers identified as Shadow Brokers leaked a set of the most sophisticated hacking tools developed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA); cybersecurity specialists point out that these tools were later used in NotPetya and WannaCry attack campaigns, which are two variants of highly aggressive malware that crippled operations in […]