The Yomiuri Shimbun reports: The Metropolitan Police Department on Tuesday arrested a former engineer of SoftBank Corp. on suspicion of violating the Unfair Competition Prevention Law by illegally divulging trade secrets regarding the 5G fifth-generation telecommunications standard, the MPD said. Kuniaki Aiba, 45, of Yokohama quit SoftBank and started working for Rakuten Mobile, Inc., one…
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Networking giant Ubiquiti alerts customers of potential data breach
Lawrence Abrams reports: Networking device maker Ubiquiti has announced a security incident that may have exposed its customers’ data. Ubiquiti is a very popular networking device manufacturer best known for its UniFi line of wired and wireless network products and a cloud management platform. Today, Ubiquiti began emailing customers to change their passwords and enable…
Kaspersky Lab autopsies evidence on SolarWinds hack
Gareth Corfield reports: Kaspersky Lab reckons the SolarWinds hackers may have hailed from the Turla malware group, itself linked to Russia’s FSB security service. Referring to the hidden backdoor secretly implanted in SolarWinds’ Orion product, Kaspersky’s Georgy Kucherin wrote in a blog post on Monday: “While looking at the Sunburst backdoor, we discovered several features that overlap…
Parler Is Gone, But Hackers Say They Downloaded Everything First
David Gilbert reports: Right-wing social network Parler was taken offline in the early hours of Monday morning, but not before a hacker found a way to download all data posted by users — including messages, images, videos, and users’ location data — shared during last week’s attack on the Capitol. The data taken from Parler…
Ransom demanded after AKVA group victim of ransomware attack
SalmonBusiness reports: On Monday morning, it was announced that the aquaculture equipment manufacturer on Sunday was hit by an extensive cyber attack. AKVA group CEO Knut Nesse told the newspaper Dagens Næringsliv that the cyber attack was ransomware. This is malicious software that infects computer systems and displays messages demanding a fee to be paid in order for…
Chinese start-up leaked 400GB of scraped data exposing 200+ million Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn users
Jim Wilson of Safety Detectives reports: High-flying and rapidly growing Chinese social media management company Socialarks has suffered a huge data leak leading to the exposure of over 400GB of personal data including several high-profile celebrities and social media influencers. The company’s unsecured ElasticSearch database contained personally identifiable information (PII) from at least 214 million…