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Recruiter’s Cloud Snafu Exposes 20,000 CVs and ID Documents

Posted on May 20, 2021 by Dissent

Phil Muncaster reports: Tens of thousands of jobseekers have had their personal information exposed by a misconfigured cloud account, according to researchers. A team at Website Planet discovered the AWS S3 bucket left unprotected and unsecured by FastTrack Reflex Recruitment, now TeamBMS. The firm apparently specializes in recruitment for the building management systems sector, for projects including skyscrapers…

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The Full Story of the Stunning RSA Hack Can Finally Be Told

Posted on May 20, 2021 by Dissent

Andy Greenberg reports: AMID ALL THE sleepless hours that Todd Leetham spent hunting ghosts inside his company’s network in early 2011, the experience that sticks with him most vividly all these years later is the moment he caught up with them. Or almost did. It was a spring evening, he says, three days—maybe four, time had…

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Colonial Pipeline confirms it paid $4.4 million to hackers

Posted on May 20, 2021 by Dissent

Cathy Bussewitz of AP reports: The operator of the nation’s largest fuel pipeline confirmed it paid $4.4 million to a gang of hackers who broke into its computer systems. Colonial Pipeline said Wednesday that after it learned of the May 7 ransomware attack, the company took its pipeline system offline and needed to do everything…

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Despite an alert from NYS DFS, some insurance companies with “instant quote” portals were victimized

Posted on May 19, 2021 by Dissent

On February 16, the NYS Department of Financial Services issued a cybersecurity fraud alert involving public-facing web sites where consumers could request “instant quotes” for car insurance or other products. The alert warned insurers that private information used to prefill requests was being stolen and misused for pandemic unemployment benefits fraud. At the time, they…

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NY: Filters Fast Settles Charges Stemming from Failure to Patch Critical Vulnerability Exploited in 2019 Data Breach

Posted on May 19, 2021 by Dissent

In 2019, Filters Fast experienced a data breach when a threat actor exploited a plugin vulnerability in vBulletin. Using SQL injection, the attacker was able to obtain consumers’ cardholder names, billing addresses, expiration dates, validation codes, and primary account numbers for purchases made between June, 2019 and July, 2020. Filters Fast did not detect any…

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Trailer maker Utility targeted in “cyber event”

Posted on May 18, 2021 by chum1ng0

Nate Tabak reports: Utility Trailer Manufacturing, one of the largest U.S. producers of trailers for the trucking industry, was targeted in an apparent ransomware attack that exposed personal information of numerous employees. The California-based company told FreightWaves that it had “suffered a cyber event” that disrupted some systems temporarily. The company disclosed the incident after…

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