The club insists that no fan data was compromised during the attack, which left staff unable to use some online functions. A spokeman for the club said “The club is not aware of any fan data being accessed in the attack” Manchester United are being assisted by the UK’s cyber security agency after an online attack left the club unable to fully restore its systems. The club said it had been hacked last week but that it was not “aware of any breach of personal data associated with our fans and...
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The data of Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro was among the personal and health information of 16 million COVID-19 patients in the country that were exposed online. This did not result from a hack, but after a hospital employee shared on GitHub a spreadsheet of access keys various government systems including usernames and passwords. Also included by the leak are 17 provincial governors and seven ministers. While the spreadsheet has already been removed from GitHub, government authorities already revoked access keys and changed their system passwords to avoid further compromise. Brazil...
UK-based cyber-security vendor Sophos is currently notifying customers via email about a security breach the company suffered earlier this week. “On November 24, 2020, Sophos was advised of an access permission issue in a tool used to store information on customers who have contacted Sophos Support,” the company said in an email sent to customers and obtained by ZDNet. Exposed information included details such as customer first and last names, email addresses, and phone numbers (if provided). A Sophos spokesperson confirmed the emails earlier today and told ZDNet that only a “small...
Two popular Android apps from Chinese tech giant Baidu were temporarily unavailable on the Google Play Store in October after they were caught collecting sensitive user details. The two apps in question—Baidu Maps and Baidu Search Box—were found to collect device identifiers, such as the International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) number or MAC address, without users’ knowledge, thus making them potentially trackable online. The discovery was made by network security firm Palo Alto Networks, who notified both Baidu and Google of their findings, after which the search company pulled the apps on October 28, citing...
Networking solutions provider Belden Inc. has been hacked and employee and company data stolen. Described Tuesday by the company as a “data incident involving unauthorized access” and a “sophisticated attack by a party outside the company,” the data theft is said to involve the hackers gaining access to a limited number of company file services. According to a statement from the company reported today by Security Week, the stolen data may have contained names, birthdates, government-issued identification numbers, bank account information, home addresses, email addresses and other employment information. The limited company information...
A hacker has published a list of credentials for nearly 50,000 Fortinet Inc. FortiGate virtual private networking systems connected to the internet that can be exploited using a known vulnerability. The 6.7-gigabyte uncompressed database is being offered on popular hacking forums and is claimed to be “the most complete achieve containing all exploit links and sslvpn websession files with username and passwords.” The person offering the database, using the name arendee2018, also claims the database contains links and all web sessions files from the Fortinet devices. The data had its...
The FBI is warning internet users to be on high alert for website and email domains masquerading as those of the crime-fighting agency. The Bureau claimed in a Public Service Announcement that it has detected multiple threat actors registering fake domains mimicking legitimate FBI ones, which could be the precursor to a new campaign. Cyber-criminals typically register domains that look identical to those of their victims, but which contain very small differences, such as an alternative TLD after the dot, or a slightly different spelling. Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs)...
A third of people surveyed said they have lost more than £1,000 to fraudsters. More than half of Brits (56%) say they haven’t done anything to ward off potential scams, despite a third (66%) saying they believe COVID-19 has led to more opportunities for fraudsters. According to research conducted by mortgage loan company Ocean Finance, there were 1,467,962 instances of fraud reported between 2018-2020 with a 12% rise in the past year alone. These figures were taken from an FOI submitted to the National Fraud Authority. Ocean Finance also found...
Among the many various tools for customizing your web server, the .htaccess config file is a tremendous asset. You can quickly reset document types, parsing engines, URL redirects, and many other crucial features. Webmasters who are not very technical may not get into the specifics of managing your own .htaccess file. But the topic itself is fascinating and worth some investigation. For this article I want to present some of the more purposeful concepts for webmasters and web developers. Anybody who is launching their own website on an Apache server will definitely...
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