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Injection Attacks Thwarted Since August; The Minerva Approach Proves Itself Once Again PETAH TIKVA, Israel and MENLO PARK, California, December 18, 2020 — Minerva Labs, a leading provider of Pre-Execution Threat Prevention Platform, today announced that the company conducted a thorough review of the cybersecurity threat exposed by the SolarWinds […]

SolarWinds Breach Related Events Prevented by Minerva Labs

This entry was posted in Breaking News Cybersecurity and tagged Minerva Labs on December 18, 2020 by Editorial Staff

Spike in Brute-Force Attacks Hints to Kickoff of Malicious Campaign. Heimdal™ Security Discovers Brute-Force Campaign Targeting Danish Companies By Vladimir Unterfingher Introduction Heimdal™ Security’s Incident Response and Management team has recently unearthed evidence regarding an anonymous Moscow-based hacking cell operating on Danish soil. The data we have analyzed reveals the […]

Danish Reseller Under Attack by Anonymous Muscovite Hacking Group

This entry was posted in Breaking News Cybersecurity Guest Contributor on October 22, 2020 by Editorial Staff

In response to news that a 17-year-old was one of three people arrested in connection with the largest privacy and security breach in Twitter’s history and the bitcoin scam that saw the accounts of public figures such as Barack Obama, Bill Gates and Joe Biden hijacked for fraud, an expert […]

Arrests in Twitter’s Largest Security Breach – Expert Comment

This entry was posted in Breaking News Cybersecurity Expert Commentary and tagged Point3 Security on July 31, 2020 by Editorial Staff

In a message to business owners on the platform today, Twitter reported a data breach while using its advertisement and analytics platform. In an email to its clients, Twitter said it was “possible” others could have accessed personal information, including email addresses, phone numbers and the last four digits of […]

Twitter Reports a Possible Data Breach

This entry was posted in Breaking News Cybersecurity Expert Commentary and tagged Twitter on June 23, 2020 by Steven Bowcut

In an open-source news flash today, the FBI, through its Infragard Partnership, and citing krebsonsecurity.com, said that Diebold Nixdorf, a provider of automatic teller machines (ATMs) and payment technology to banks and retailers, recently suffered a ransomware attack that disrupted some operations. Krebs on Security, known for frequently breaking the […]

Ransomware Hit ATM Giant Diebold Nixdorf

This entry was posted in Breaking News Cybersecurity Ransomware and tagged Diebold Nixdorf on May 12, 2020 by Steven Bowcut

TechCrunch reported yesterday that New York payments startup, Paay, exposed millions of credit card numbers. The massive database storing millions of credit card transactions is now secure after spending close to three weeks exposed publicly to the internet. The report said, “because there was no password on the server, anyone could access the […]

Unsecured Paay Database Exposes 2.5m Card Transaction Records

This entry was posted in Breaking News Cybersecurity Expert Commentary on April 23, 2020 by Editorial Staff