The National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) revealed a recent data breach impacted 890 schools that use its services. A breach notification letter filed with the Office of the California Attorney General said the Cl0p ransomware gang gained access to its MOVEit managed file transfer (MFT) server on May 30 and stole files containing personally identifiable information (PII). Clearinghouse is a nonprofit that […]
Illinois Valley Community College’s servers were shut down by a ransomware attack, affecting the school’s email servers, website, and administrative software, reports Northern Public Radio. The servers have been down since April 24. The attack was discovered Friday when the email system and website stopped functioning properly, according to WCJS News. An IT investigation determined the network had […]
Cybersecurity experts from NordLocker, part of Nord Security, reveal that employees from certain departments are much more lucrative targets for cybercriminals than others. With human error being the reason behind a whopping 82% of data breaches, employees are the weakest link when it comes to organizational cybersecurity. “From receptionists to the C-Suite, every employee should […]
As the healthcare industry accelerates into an increasingly digitized world, cyber breaches exposing confidential patient data are becoming more commonplace. In fact, according to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights’ breach portal, a staggering 44,993,618 healthcare records were exposed or stolen in 2021. The implications of these security breaches are […]
Small businesses are continuing to use Word documents or Excel spreadsheets to keep their passwords despite the inherit risk of compromise. A study by NordPass reveals 3 out of 7 companies admitted it keeps passwords in Word, Excel, or other plain text documents that were not password protected. Before adopting a company-wide password manager, none […]
Adobe is urging organizations who use the Magento 1 e-commerce platform to upgrade to the latest Adobe Commerce platform. Sansec, an e-commerce malware and detection tool has identified a mass breach of over 500 stores running on the Magento 1 ecommerce platform. Although Adobe ended support for Magento 1 in June of 2020, many companies […]
Wedemark, Germany-based audio giant Sennheiser is working “intensively” to investigate how some customer data was exposed on the internet two months ago, the company says in a newly updated statement. In a notice on its website, Sennheiser acknowledges being notified in October that some company data was displayed on the web. The company says it […]
Stock trading platform Robinhood announced that certain customer support systems were hacked in early November. The unauthorized party was able to gain access using social engineering through a customer support employee by phone. The hacker was able to obtain access to a list of email addresses of about five million people, and full names of […]
Luxury retailer Niemen Marcus Group (NMG) learned an unauthorized party obtained personal information associated to certain Neimen Marcus’ online accounts in May of 2020. NMG is notifying 4.6 million of its online customers about the data breach that happened last year. The company is working with cybersecurity expert, Mandiant to investigate the incident. The personal […]
A pair of new reports from Risk Based Security find that disclosed software and hardware vulnerabilities continue to increase while reported data breaches in most parts of the world decline. For IT administrators struggling to keep pace with the rapid changes in cybersecurity, the reports provide some useful insight into exactly what you’re up against. […]
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