Kitchen and furniture seller De Mandemakers Groep (DMG) has fallen victim to hackers. They managed to block a large part of the IT systems. DMG has reported the incident to the police and reported the incident to the Dutch Data Protection Authority. Cybersecurity company Fox-IT is helping the company with the settlement of the attack and strengthening the…
Author: Dissent
US Secret Service brings back its Cyber Most Wanted list
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The US Secret Service has updated its official website this month to add a new page where the agency is now listing the most sought-after fugitives involved in financially related cybercrime investigations. The new Most Wanted Fugitives page was re-added to the agency’s site after the page had been removed from the site for…
Microsoft finds Netgear router bugs enabling corporate breaches
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Attackers could use critical firmware vulnerabilities discovered by Microsoft in some NETGEAR router models as a stepping stone to move laterally within enterprise networks. The security flaws impact DGN2200v1 series routers running firmware versions before v1.0.0.60 and compatible with all major DSL Internet service providers. They allow unauthenticated attackers to access unpatched routers’ management…
Western Digital to provide recovery services for hacked NAS drives
Western Digital has announced a new trade-in programme to help customers mitigate the effects of a mass malware attack that saw terabytes of data wiped from users’ NAS drives overnight. Those who lost data as a result of the hack will be able to benefit from Western Digital’s data recovery services, as well as a…
Mayo Clinic faces lawsuits over nude patient image snooping
Kristen Leigh Painter reports an update to a previously reported insider-wrongdoing breach: Mayo Clinic is facing three lawsuits from patients who say a former surgery resident, Ahmad Alsughayer, viewed hundreds of their nude photographs in electronic medical records despite having no professional reason to go into their files. Alsughayer, who is 28 and has a…
FL: inmates filing lawsuit after data breach
Rochelle Alleyne reports a follow up to a breach not previously noted on this site: Hacked. That was the headline back in April when it came to the 20th judicial Public Defender’s Office. A document on the agency’s website, says private information linked to more than half a million staff members and clients was potentially exposed. The…