Dive Brief: Card network company Visa said Thursday it has launched a payments learning program in response to a need for skilled cybersecurity workers, according to a company press release. The program aims to equip workers, students and military members with training in the field through online courses and certifications to create a pipeline of diverse […]
A security researcher said he discovered millions of Chinese citizen identity numbers spilling online after an e-commerce store left its database exposed to the internet. Viktor Markopoulos, a security researcher working for CloudDefense.ai, said he found the database belonging to Zhefengle, a China-based e-commerce store for importing goods from overseas. The database contained more than […]
One of the highest-traffic airports in Mexico said it is responding to a cyberattack. The Querétaro Intercontinental Airport — about three hours from Mexico City — confirmed reports that it had been attacked by hackers, posting a notice on social media sites that it had called in experts to help address the issue. “We reported […]
Canada’s largest public library system said it is dealing with a cyberattack that brought down its website, member services pages and limited access to its digital collections. The Toronto Public Library serves more than 1.2 million members with more than 12 million items spread across 100 branches. It said on Saturday afternoon that it was […]
Oct 28, 2023NewsroomPrivacy / Data Security New findings have shed light on what’s said to be a lawful attempt to covertly intercept traffic originating from jabber[.]ru (aka xmpp[.]ru), an XMPP-based instant messaging service, via servers hosted on Hetzner and Linode (a subsidiary of Akamai) in Germany. “The attacker has issued several new TLS certificates using […]
The government of Philadelphia said hackers spent at least three months inside city email systems, giving them wide access to health information stored in email accounts. The city did not respond to requests for comment about how many people were affected by the situation, but in a notice released on Friday officials said an unauthorized […]
Oct 26, 2023NewsroomNetwork Security / Cyber Attack Cloudflare on Thursday said it mitigated thousands of hyper-volumetric HTTP distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that exploited a recently disclosed flaw called HTTP/2 Rapid Reset, 89 of which exceeded 100 million requests per second (RPS). “The campaign contributed to an overall increase of 65% in HTTP DDoS attack traffic […]
Popular typing assistant Grammarly said it has fixed vulnerabilities affecting user logins after being notified by a security company of the issues. The bugs affected social sign-in — when someone accesses a web service through their existing credentials for a platform like Facebook or Google — and were caused by issues with implementations of Open […]
Enlarge Getty Images Identity and authentication management provider Okta said hackers managed to view private customer information after gaining access to credentials to its customer support management system. “The threat actor was able to view files uploaded by certain Okta customers as part of recent support cases,” Okta Chief Security Officer David Bradbury said Friday. […]