Cybersecurity

Billion-dollar boat seller MarineMax reports cyberattack to SEC

A cyberattack has disrupted operations at one of the world’s biggest boat sellers, the company said in regulatory filings this week. MarineMax, which calls itself the world’s largest recreational boat, yacht, and superyacht services company, filed documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday afternoon describing the incident, which began Sunday.  “MarineMax determined… that […]

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LockBit takes credit for February shutdown of South African pension fund

The LockBit ransomware gang said it was behind an attack on South Africa’s government workers pension fund last month, which has hampered the organization’s operations and disrupted pension payments. The South African Government Pensions Administration Agency (GPAA) manages the money within the Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) — the largest pension fund in Africa — […]

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Roku cancels unauthorized subscriptions and provides refunds for 15k breached accounts

Roku said it canceled unauthorized subscriptions and refunded more than 15,000 accounts after discovering what they called “suspicious activity.” The streaming TV giant — which reported $3.4 billion in revenue last year — said that from the end of December to the end of February, hackers used username and password combinations breached from other services […]

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UnitedHealth says Change Healthcare hacked by nation-state, as US pharmacy outages drag on | TechCrunch

U.S. health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group (UHG) said Thursday in a filing with government regulators that its subsidiary Change Healthcare was compromised, likely by government-backed hackers. In a filing Thursday, UHG blamed the ongoing cybersecurity incident affecting Change Healthcare on suspected nation-state hackers but said it had no timeframe for when its systems would be […]

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Microsoft Introduces Linux-Like ‘sudo’ Command to Windows 11

Feb 12, 2024NewsroomOperating System / Technology Microsoft said it’s introducing Sudo for Windows 11 as part of an early preview version to help users execute commands with administrator privileges. “Sudo for Windows is a new way for users to run elevated commands directly from an unelevated console session,” Microsoft Product Manager Jordi Adoumie said. “It […]