Ian King reports: Intel Corp. is investigating whether someone gained early access to part of its earnings announcement on Thursday. “We are investigating reports that non-authorized access may have been obtained to one graphic in our earnings material,” the chipmaker said in a statement. Read more on Bloomberg.
Update: Security breach that led to abusive posts on Canvas solved, Clark County School District says
Julie Wootton-Greener reports: The Clark County School District has found out how a person gained access to an online learning platform and used it to post “inappropriate messages.” The district said in a statement late Wednesday that the staff had “identified and corrected” the problem that enabled the intruder to access the district’s Canvas system…
User data from decade-old breach of MyFreeCams shows up for sale?
Edvardas Mikalauskas reported: A database that purportedly belongs to MyFreeCams.com, one of the top adult chat and web streaming communities, is being sold on a popular hacker forum. According to the post author, the data was exfiltrated from the company servers in December 2020 by carrying out an SQL injection attack, and includes 2 million…
UK govt gives malware infected laptops to vulnerable students
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Some of the laptops distributed by the UK Department for Education (DfE) to vulnerable students have been found to be infected with malware as reported by the BBC. The devices are given out for free by the government to support disadvantaged students unable to access remote education during the COVID-19 pandemic, including children and young people who have…
Cyberattack on GSTN portal? Cryptic tweet raises data security concerns among taxpayers
Dipak Mondal reports: At 12 noon yesterday, the GST Network (GSTN), the IT backbone of the Goods and Services Tax, put out a tweet saying that it had detected “some activity in the cyberspace by unscrupulous elements because of which some taxpayers may have experienced difficulties/delays in accessing the GST portal which otherwise is working…
After big hack of U.S. government, Biden enlists ‘world class’ cybersecurity team
Christopher Bing and Joseph Menn report: President Joe Biden is hiring a group of national security veterans with deep cyber expertise, drawing praise from former defense officials and investigators as the U.S. government works to recover from one of the biggest hacks of its agencies attributed to Russian spies. […] To replace Krebs at the…