Digest 1 | Hacking & Security News Bytes & Recommendations | Sept'20 #HackingNews #CyberNews
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The 'Hacking & Security News Bytes & Recommendations' is a compilation of top cyber security incidents, breaches and risks reported recently.
The aim is to orchestrate important news and events as a weekly digest and provide valuable recommendation and guidance for individuals and corporate in order to make #cyberspace a safer and better place for everyone.
-- NEWS REFERRED IN THIS DIGEST --:
#1: Experian #DataBreach in South Africa Affects Millions #Experian is one of the largest Credit Check companies, this breach has exposed personal information of millions of its customers, which includes data of 24 million South Africans and 793,749 business entities....
#2: Cisco IOS Memory Exhaustion risk # After disclosure of a zero-day #vulnerability in Cisco IOS device, Cisco has warned everyone about its vulnerability being exploited in the wild and could allow a remote authenticated attacker to carry attacks on an affected device....
#3# 41% of Cyber insurance claim was made to cover loss from #Ransomware attacks during initial 6 Months of 2020 # This Cyber insurance claims ranged in size from $1,000 to well over $2,000,000 per security incident. Majority of these claims were made notably due to #Ransomware attack, Fund Transfer fraud and Email Compromise; where #Ransomware accounted for 41% of such claims....
#4: Inside Amazon’s Secret Program to Spy On Employee's Private Facebook Groups # One of the internal documents associated with Amazon was exposed in the public domain which raised concern on Amazon's sophisticated and secret program initiated for surveilling dozens of private Facebook groups set up by their employees....
#5: Three middle-aged hackers confirmed to have hacked into Donald Trump's Twitter account days before 2016 US election # A report confirmed that Three middle aged hacker managed to access Donald Trump’s Twitter account in 2016; Trump's password notably extracted from the 2012 Linkedin #breach.
-- NEWS SOURCES --
https://www.experian.co.za/fraudulent-data-incident
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-iosxr-dvmrp-memexh-dSmpdvfz
https://www.zdnet.com/article/ransomware-accounts-to-41-of-all-cyber-insurance-claims/
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3azegw/amazon-is-spying-on-its-workers-in-closed-facebook-groups-internal-reports-show
https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/11/trump_twitter_account_recycled_password/
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The aim is to orchestrate important news and events as a weekly digest and provide valuable recommendation and guidance for individuals and corporate in order to make #cyberspace a safer and better place for everyone.
-- NEWS REFERRED IN THIS DIGEST --:
#1: Experian #DataBreach in South Africa Affects Millions #Experian is one of the largest Credit Check companies, this breach has exposed personal information of millions of its customers, which includes data of 24 million South Africans and 793,749 business entities....
#2: Cisco IOS Memory Exhaustion risk # After disclosure of a zero-day #vulnerability in Cisco IOS device, Cisco has warned everyone about its vulnerability being exploited in the wild and could allow a remote authenticated attacker to carry attacks on an affected device....
#3# 41% of Cyber insurance claim was made to cover loss from #Ransomware attacks during initial 6 Months of 2020 # This Cyber insurance claims ranged in size from $1,000 to well over $2,000,000 per security incident. Majority of these claims were made notably due to #Ransomware attack, Fund Transfer fraud and Email Compromise; where #Ransomware accounted for 41% of such claims....
#4: Inside Amazon’s Secret Program to Spy On Employee's Private Facebook Groups # One of the internal documents associated with Amazon was exposed in the public domain which raised concern on Amazon's sophisticated and secret program initiated for surveilling dozens of private Facebook groups set up by their employees....
#5: Three middle-aged hackers confirmed to have hacked into Donald Trump's Twitter account days before 2016 US election # A report confirmed that Three middle aged hacker managed to access Donald Trump’s Twitter account in 2016; Trump's password notably extracted from the 2012 Linkedin #breach.
-- NEWS SOURCES --
https://www.experian.co.za/fraudulent-data-incident
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-iosxr-dvmrp-memexh-dSmpdvfz
https://www.zdnet.com/article/ransomware-accounts-to-41-of-all-cyber-insurance-claims/
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3azegw/amazon-is-spying-on-its-workers-in-closed-facebook-groups-internal-reports-show
https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/11/trump_twitter_account_recycled_password/
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