Catalin Cimpanu reports: Business email compromise (BEC) has overtaken ransomware and data breaches as the main reason companies filed a cyber-insurance claim in the EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, and Asia) region last year, said insurance giant AIG. According to statistics published in July, AIG said that BEC-related insurance filings accounted for nearly a quarter…
Month: September 2019
Student surprise: malware masked as textbooks and essays
From the Kaspersky Team, this useful alert: We have written on numerous occasions about how easy it is to inadvertently pick up some nasty stuff when you try to download popular TV shows or game cheats. However, cybercriminals do not just limit themselves to entertainment products. You can also stumble upon a virus when looking…
Privacy Snafu Exposes UK Holidaymakers’ Data for Three Years
Phil Muncaster reports: The personal details of over 200,000 customers of a British holiday firm were left exposed in audio files for several years, according to a new report. Truly Travels, which trades under the name Teletext Holidays, is unusual in that consumers browse its website for package deals before completing their order over the…
Over 47,000 Supermicro servers are exposing BMC ports on the internet
Catalin Cimpanu reports: More than 47,000 workstations and servers, possibly more, running on Supermicro motherboards are currently open to attacks because administrators have left an internal component exposed on the internet. These systems are vulnerable to a new set of vulnerabilities named USBAnywhere that affect the baseboard management controller (BMC) firmware of Supermicro motherboards. Read…
Data Leak Hits 2.5 Million Customers of Cosmetics Giant Yves Rocher
Phil Muncaster reports: A French retail consultancy exposed data on millions of its clients’ customers as well as sensitive business information, after researchers discovered an unsecured Elasticsearch database. Aliznet, which specializes in digital transformation, names the likes of tech giants IBM, Oracle and Salesforce, retail leaders like Auchan, and big brands including Yves Rocher and…
AU: Porter’s office in privacy breach
Alice Workman reports: Who knew the one thing that could unite Australia’s diverse multicultural leaders was a privacy breach by the Attorney-General’s office? Christian Porter gathered religious leaders and journalists at The Great Synagogue in Sydney’s CBD last Thursday to read his draft religious discrimination bill. Not all attended — the Catholic Church and Australian…