Cloud company Snowflake’s data breach litigation woes got worse as two bids to dismiss education and financial institutional plaintiffs from the case largely failed to convince a federal judge. The Los Angeles Unified School District was just one of the at least 165 companies and organizations which had their data stolen because cybercriminals hacked into…
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US company with access to biggest telecom firms uncovers breach by nation-state hackers
A.J. Vicens reports: Hackers working for an unnamed nation-state breached networks at Ribbon Communications, a key U.S. telecommunications services company, and remained within the firm’s systems for nearly a year without being detected, a company spokesperson confirmed in a statement on Wednesday. Ribbon Communications, a Texas-based company that provides technology to facilitate voice and data…
Canada says hacktivists breached water and energy facilities
Bill Toulas reports: The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security warned today that hacktivists have breached critical infrastructure systems multiple times across the country, allowing them to modify industrial controls that could have led to dangerous conditions. The authorities issued the warning to raise awareness of the elevated malicious activity targeting internet-exposed Industrial Control Systems (ICS)…
UK: FCA fines former employee of Virgin Media O2 for data protection breach
FX News Group reports: Taunton-based Luke Coleman, aged 30, has pleaded guilty to unlawfully obtaining and the subsequent disclosure of personal data in breach of the Data Protection Act, following a prosecution by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Coleman, who was employed by Virgin Media O2, sold confidential customer data to family friend Nicholas…
Former General Manager for U.S. Defense Contractor Pleads Guilty to Selling Stolen Trade Secrets to Russian Broker
Peter Williams, 39, an Australian national, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today in connection with selling his employer’s trade secrets to a Russian cyber-tools broker, the Justice Department announced today. Williams pleaded to two counts of theft of trade secrets. The material, stolen over a three-year period from the U.S. defense contractor where he…
The 4TB time bomb: when EY’s cloud went public (and what it taught us)
Today’s episode of “No need to hack when it’s leaking” is brought to us by Neo Security. In the course of their research and scanning, they came across a 4 TB SQL backup. As Neo Security explains: An SQL Server BAK file is a complete database backup. It contains everything: the schema, all the data,…