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According to web application security testing specialists, 7-Eleven Japan decided to suspend the mobile payment feature recently implemented for the 7Pay app after a third party exploited a vulnerability to make fraudulent charges, affecting hundreds of customers. The mobile payments feature had just been released on Monday, July 1 and allowed users to scan a […]
Data protection specialists reported that British Airways is facing a fine of up to £180M due to the data breach that occurred in the company last year. After investigating the incident, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) concluded that “security deficiencies in the company” led to the loss of information such as personal data, bank […]
Britain’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) today hit British Airways with a record fine of £183 million for failing to protect the personal information of around half a million of its customers during last year’s security breach. British Airways, who describes itself as “The World’s Favorite Airline,” disclosed a breach last year that exposed personal details […]
Security has been a major concern for everyone recently, especially for companies that use technology as the main component of their service offering. The increasing pressure of consumer expectations is driving many businesses to offer customers and members the desired digital and fast processes. However, alongside this new technology, today’s consumers also want to be […]
Last month, June 9, 2019 we featured here in Hackercombat.com an article providing a quick glimpse of what a Security Operation Center (SOC) is all about. If we can make an analogy to human physiology, SOC is the organization’s strongest countermeasure against malicious foreign bodies, similar to T-cells. But of course, like anything in real […]
There were many data breach 2016. It seemed like there was a new one in the news every other week during that year. From a cybersecurity perspective, it was one of the biggest years of breaches. It is interesting to note, though, that 95% of all data breach 2016 was comprised of three industries: technology […]
According to network security specialists, a data breach has exposed the information of nearly 3 million members of the Desjardins Canada credit union, including data from more than 170,000 organizations. Authorities have already contacted the Quebec-based organization, which is the largest federation of credit unions in North America. Among the compromised information are details such […]
At its developer conference held earlier this week in New York, the MongoDB team announced the latest version of its database management software that includes a variety of advanced features, including Field Level Encryption, Distributed Transactions, and Wildcard Indexes. The newly introduced Field Level Encryption (FLE), which will be available in the upcoming MongoDB 4.2 […]
Medical services collection company American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) has just filed for bankruptcy after data breach reported a few days ago, web applications security audits specialists report. Reportedly, AMCA was hacked for about nine months, a fact that compromised the confidential information of AMCA’s business customers, including major industry companies such as Quest Diagnostics, […]
Symantec, the information security services industry giant, minimized a data breach incident that, according to cybersecurity specialists would have allowed a threat actor to access the company’s passwords and a list of customers, including prominent private companies and government institutions in Australia. In this list of organizations working with Symantec are the main departments of […]
A new threat has hit head the headlines (Robinhood anyone?), and you need to know if you’re protected right now. What do you do? Traditionally, you would have to go with one of the options below. Option 1 – Manually check that IoCs have been updated across your security controls. This would require checking that […]
According to specialists in website security services, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials have reported that the photos of the passengers registered by the agency have been the subject of considerable cyberattack, which has generated concern in several levels. Through a statement, customs officials said that these photos, which included images of people and car […]
A new data breach incident in a clinical analysis company has been reported by website security service experts just one day after the Quest Diagnostics company data breach was confirmed. On this occasion, company LabCorp submitted a notification to the Securities and Exchange Commission reporting that around 7.7 million of the company’s customers would be […]
Personal data of nearly 200,000 students and staff members of the Australian National University were in a “sophisticated” cyber-attack. The trend shows that a similar breach happened to the Chinese government last year. The university admitted that hackers were stealing data dating back 19 years and included banking information, passport information, as well as past […]
Personal data belonging to almost 100k clients of Australian banks are exposed due to a cyberattack against PayID, a real-time online payment platform from the Australian bank Westpac. According to web application security specialists, this attack allowed hackers to instantly transfer money between multiple banks using a mobile phone number and an email address. The […]
Information security audit specialists reported a data breach incident in the major clinical company Quest Diagnostics that occurred last Monday; according to the company, an unauthorized actor obtained access to the records (including medical and financial data) of nearly 12 million of the company’s clients. The news of the incident began to spread after Quest […]
Quest Diagnostics has confirmed a data breach that exposes 11.9 million patients records that includes financial data, Social Security numbers, and medical information. Quest Diagnostics is lab testing provider of diagnostic testing, information, and services that patients and doctors used to make better healthcare decisions. The breach happened through a contractor of a contractor, Quest […]
Web application security specialists reported the finding of a database that stored tens of millions of user registers from several different dating apps. It is still unknown which individual or company operated this database. Jeremiah Fowler, a web application security expert, recently reported the database, mentioning that it was fully exposed, because it did not […]
A security incident in the Flipboard news application allowed malicious users to access the company’s systems for more than nine months; According to specialists in the IICS’s information security course, developers have already begun to notify the impacted users. In the notification that the affected users have received, Flipboard mentions that the threat actors obtained […]
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, […]
The U.S Navy proposes to come up with a global social media archive of a totally unprecedented scale. The social media archive that the U.S Navy researchers plan to create would comprise 350 billion of digital data records and would be part of the ongoing research efforts conducted through the Department of Defense and Analysis […]