15th December 2020 The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has today announced a conclusion to a GDPR investigation it conducted into Twitter International Company. The DPC’s investigation commenced in January, 2019 following receipt of a breach notification from Twitter and the DPC has found that Twitter infringed Article 33(1) and 33(5) of the GDPR in terms…
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DE: Symrise impacted by ransomware attack
Symrise, a German manufacturer of flavors and fragrances used in products, has reportedly been the victim of a ransomware attack. The attack was reported by Handelsblatt, and brought to our attention by @Chum1ng0. Unfortunately Google translate is giving me a bit of a headache with this one. That said, I do not see any ransom…
Norwegian Cruise Company Hurtigruten Experiences Cyber Attack
Hospitality Ireland reports; Norwegian cruise company Hurtigruten experienced a cyber attack on Monday December 14, which caused several key systems are to go down, the company said in a statement. No “Material Financial Effect” Expected The company, which operates ferries along the Norwegian coast as well as cruises in the Arctic and Antarctic in normal times, said that…
Chinese hackers suspected of attacking government agencies in Mongolia
From SecurityLab.ru: A Chinese cybercriminal APT group is suspected of hacking into the network of a Mongolian software company and hacking into a chat application used by hundreds of Mongolian government agencies. According to experts from ESET, the attack took place in June this year. Hackers attacked an application called Able Desktop, developed by local company Able Software. The…
Intel’s Habana Labs hacked by Pay2Key ransomware, data stolen
Lawrence Abrams reports: Intel-owned AI processor developer Habana Labs has suffered a cyberattack where data was stolen and leaked by threat actors. Habana Labs is an Israeli developer of AI processors that accelerate artificial intelligence workloads in the datacenter. Intel purchased the company in December 2019 for approximately $2 billion. Today, the Pay2Key ransomware operation leaked…
Former Cisco engineer gets two years in prison for Webex Teams hack
Allison Levitsky reports: The former Cisco Systems Inc. engineer who pleaded guilty to intentionally causing damage that shut down thousands of Webex Teams accounts for two weeks in 2018 was sentenced Wednesday to two years in federal prison. Sudhish Kasaba Ramesh, of San Jose, resigned from the San Jose networking giant in April 2018 and joined the…