Hackers disrupted internet connectivity in public healthcare institutions in Singapore this week with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, a health technology agency that oversees the institutions said. Synapxe, which manages operations of 46 public healthcare institutions in Singapore and around 1,400 community partners such as nursing homes and general practitioners, said there’s no evidence that public […]
Mortgage and loan giant Mr. Cooper says a “cybersecurity incident” earlier this week was the cause of an ongoing outage, adding that the company is “working to resolve the issue.” The Texas-based company said in a statement on its website that on October 31, Mr. Cooper “became the target of a cyber security incident and took […]
Dallas County provided an update on the ransomware attack that was reported this week, telling residents that they were able to stop the incident before the hackers could encrypt files or systems. On Monday, the county of nearly 3 million residents confirmed it was dealing with a cybersecurity incident after the Play ransomware gang claimed […]
A Florida man was sentenced to prison last week for his role in a hacking scheme that resulted in the theft of approximately $1 million in cryptocurrency. The 20–year-old Orlando man, identified as Jordan Dave Persad, was found guilty of hacking into victims’ email accounts and hijacking their phone numbers to gain access to cryptocurrency […]
Oct 30, 2023The Hacker NewsSaaS Security / Data Security Earlier this week, ServiceNow announced on its support site that misconfigurations within the platform could result in “unintended access” to sensitive data. For organizations that use ServiceNow, this security exposure is a critical concern that could have resulted in major data leakage of sensitive corporate data. […]
A city in California warned residents this week that their data was accessed by hackers who were in government systems for more than a month. Officials in Victorville — a city of about 135,000 residents two hours northeast from Los Angeles — sent out breach notification letters to people warning that hackers were in their […]
Multiple Czech Republic government websites were disrupted earlier this week due to a denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The police force and Prague Airport websites were also disrupted as a result of the cyber attack. The sites were down for around two hours on Tuesday, October 24. The website of the Crimea Platform, an international summit taking […]
Mozilla and Google this week announced software updates for Firefox and Chrome that address multiple high-severity vulnerabilities, including memory safety bugs. On Tuesday, Mozilla released Firefox 119 with patches for 11 vulnerabilities, including three high-severity issues. The first of the flaws, CVE-2023-5721, is an insufficient activation-delay bug that could result in the user unintentionally activating […]
A hospital network in New York was able to restore its online systems on Saturday after a week of issues caused by a cyberattack. Westchester Medical Center Health Network released a statement on October 16, warning that HealthAlliance Hospital, Margaretville Hospital and Mountainside Residential Care Center were “experiencing a potential cybersecurity threat and an IT […]