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…
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Fax Express leaked database noted by New Jersey
Seen on NJCCIC, a summary of a breach noted by them on December 10: A hacked database belonging to Fax Express, an office equipment supply store based in Ocean County, NJ was exposed, revealing approximately 560,000 compromised usernames and dehashed passwords. The breached database is connected to the domain shredderstoo[.]com and is assessed to be owned…
Cyber attack hobbles sales for DSW
Tristan Navera reports: A cyber attack on a vendor hobbled sales at the parent of DSW Shoe Warehouse in September, the company disclosed this week. Columbus-based Designer Brands Inc. (NYSE: DBI) reported in its earnings call this week that a vendor was hit with a ransomware attack and had to voluntarily shut down its systems….
Tech unicorn UiPath discloses data breach
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Tech unicorn UiPath, a startup that makes robotics automation software, is currently emailing users about a security incident that exposed their personal information online. “On December 1, 2020, UiPath became aware of an incident that resulted in unauthorized disclosure of a file containing limited personal information about users of UiPath Academy,” the…
Air France-KLM victim of cyber attack – media
ABM FN-Dow Jones reports (translated): Hackers have tried to break into Air France-KLM. The NOS reported this on Thursday based on insiders. […] The attack appears to be intended to gather intelligence for a possible follow-up attack, NOS says on the basis of a confidential document. Read more on Beursgorilla.nl. h/t, @Chum1ng0
Hackers sell 4000 .nz email addresses, passwords stolen from popular app
1News reports: A popular PDF app which last month had millions of emails and passwords leaked in a significant data breach has today revealed a further breach than previously reported. On November 20, a person claimed to be in possession of 2.6 million email addresses and hashed passwords from Nitro PDF, an application which allows…