Duncan Riley reports: Business consulting firm Frost & Sullivan Inc. has suffered a data breach and data stolen from the firm appeared for sale on a hacker forum. The Mountain View, California-based company has a global presence with 40 offices across six continents. It offers services such as market research, analysis, growth strategy consulting and corporate…
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Twitter says some business users had their private data exposed
Zack Whittaker reports: Flip the “days since the last Twitter security incident” back to zero. Twitter said Tuesday that it has emailed its business customers, such as those who advertise on the site, to warn that their information may have been compromised in a security lapse. Read more on TechCrunch.
ConnectWise Partners Hit By Ransomware Via Automate Flaw
O’Ryan Johnson reports: Multiple ConnectWise partners have had their customers hit with ransomware through a software flaw that the company revealed last week with one having several end users compromised, according to a source who spoke on condition of anonymity. Tampa, Fla.-based ConnectWise confirmed that the vulnerability in ConnectWise Automate – which the company announced…
PH: Digital rights advocates warn of FaceApp’s security breach amid terror bill
Reinette Tarinay reports: Amid the looming passage of the anti-terror bill, digital rights advocates warned netizens against using FaceApp. In a statement, Computer Professionals’ Union (CPU) said that FaceApp comes with ‘several risks and dangers’ especially since its popularity surged after Facebook’s alarming issue of duplicate accounts as well as the government’s awful try on…
Woman who deliberately deleted firm’s Dropbox is sentenced
Graham Cluley writes: 58-year-old Danielle Bulley may not look like your typical cybercriminal, but the act of revenge she committed against a company had just as much impact as a conventional hacker breaking into a business’s servers and causing havoc. As North Yorkshire police report, Bulley has been successfully prosecuted under the UK’s Computer Misuse Act…
San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System Faces Lawsuit After Data Breach
Rebecca Picciotto reports: Since June 5, The San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System (SFERS) has been confronted with a class-action lawsuit claiming negligence due to a data hack from February. Righetti Glugoski, a law firm located in San Francisco, is representing the plaintiffs. The case was brought to the firm by San Francisco resident Richard Goss….