Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. reports: AUSA 2024 — Army undersecretary Gabe Camarillo announced here Tuesday that the service would create a secure online enclave where small businesses can work with sensitive information under the Army’s protection — a potential lifeline for smaller firms struggling to meet Pentagon cybersecurity requirements and defend themselves against high-end threats like China. Known as…
Update of October 24 — We have made excellent progress, I think, but are still investigating some things that were broken. If you spot or experience any problems, please let me know via email to fixitfolks@databreaches[.]net.
Sam Mitrovic explains the scam: Recently I received a notification to approve a Gmail account recovery attempt. The request originated from the United States. I denied the request and about 40 minutes later received a missed call. The missed call showed caller ID as Google Sydney. I soon forgot about this. ***** Exactly a week later,…
The Canadian Press reports: All Calgary Public Library locations have been closed due to a cybersecurity breach. The library posted the news on its website, stating the closures took effect as of 5 p.m. Friday. The post says that in addition to the closures, all servers and library computer access are being turned off. No…
Jonathan Greig reports: One of the top cybersecurity officials in the U.S. said Wednesday that he was especially concerned with Chinese infiltration of the country’s critical infrastructure, as well as software supply chain risks and the continued expansion of ransomware. Although there have been several recent disclosures about Beijing-linked hacking campaigns, National Cyber Director Harry…
Davey Winder reports: Hackers have compromised the Internet’s past, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, stealing 31 million passwords and launching a massive Distributed Denial of Service attack in the process. It is unclear if the two security incidents, the compromise of the Internet Archive’s authentication database containing registered member details, including hashed passwords, and the…