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BEWARE, INSTAGRAM USERS.

Credit Karma glitch exposed users to other people’s accounts

700K Guest Records Stolen in Choice Hotels Breach

State Farm customer accounts breached in credential stuffing attack

Bug in Twitter platform may have allowed advertising partners to view some user data

IKEA inadvertently exposed over 400 email addresses due to human error

Threat Spotlight: Lateral Phishing

Capital One data breach impacts 100 million Americans and 6 million Canadians

Louisiana Governor declares emergency after a ransomware attack hits three schools

Slack Resetting Thousands of User Passwords After Learning 2015 Breach Was Worse Than Previously Known

New attack campaign targets vulnerable WordPress sites to alter their titles

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Chris Wolski, head of information security and data protection at Perdue Farms, discusses the unique intersection of cyber and physical systems he and his team help protect in this Recorded Future Podcast.

Ascension Global Technology CEO, Delta Munoz discusses cybersecurity and education with Kimberly Archuleta, CEO Avance Learning Solutions, on the GenerationWe Podcast with Host Andrew Machota of New Town Connections

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BEWARE, INSTAGRAM USERS.

A new bug has infiltrated Instagram and spread like wildfire. It is a hack that has spread from user account to user account undetected so far. Over this past weekend, I was using Instagram when I was direct messaged by a friend of mine with the message titled, “Lindsay, I made this for you.” Underneath...

State Farm customer accounts breached in credential stuffing attack

Attackers used a list of usernames and passwords obtained via credential stuffing attack to access State Farm customers’ online accounts.The investigation revealed that attackers were able to confirm valid usernames and passwords for some online accounts, however, no personal information was accessed. What is the issue? Insurance company State Farm notified its customers that it...

Capital One data breach impacts 100 million Americans and 6 million Canadians

An unauthorized third-party accessed the information for 106 million people by exploiting a configuration vulnerability.The exposed information includes personal information, credit card data, transaction data, Social Security numbers, linked bank account numbers, and Social Insurance numbers of consumers and small businesses who applied for credit card products between 2005 and 2019. Capital One disclosed that...

Slack Resetting Thousands of User Passwords After Learning 2015 Breach Was Worse Than Previously Known

Slack is resetting roughly 100,000 user passwords for accounts that were active in 2015. The company has only recently learned that an old security breach from four years ago was perhaps worse than previously thought. The news, first reported by ZD Net and confirmed by Slack in an announcement on its website, will only affect about 1...

American Express Customers Targeted by Novel Phishing Attack

A phishing attack using a novel technique to steal credentials from American Express customers was recently found in an email inbox protected using Microsoft’s Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) by Cofense Phishing Defense Center researchers. The phishing campaign targeted both corporate and consumer cardholders with phishing emails full of grammatical errors but with a small but...

Sprint says hackers breached customer accounts via Samsung website

US mobile network operator Sprint said hackers broke into an unknown number of customer accounts via the Samsung.com “add a line” website. “On June 22, Sprint was informed of unauthorized access to your Sprint account using your account credentials via the Samsung.com ‘add a line’ website,” Sprint said in a letter it is sending impacted customers....

Are you protected from phishing emails?

97% of all email users do not know what a phishing email looks like. 21% of all ransomware is sent through email and 92% of all malware is sent through emails. The average financial cost of a data breach is $3.86m. Email phishing is a very dangerous and also very common way for cyber criminals...

Internal data of GE Aviation found in exposed Jenkins server

The server contained source code, passwords, configuration details, and other sensitive information related to GE Aviation’s internal infrastructure.It was one of the 5,495 publicly available Jenkins instances as indexed by Shodan. A publicly available Jenkins server of GE Aviation was found spilling sensitive data out in the open. Security researcher Bob Diachenko came across this...

Attackers exploit flaw in 7-Eleven app to swindle over $500,000 from Japanese customers

Around 900 customers are said to have been targeted in the attack, who collectively lost around ¥55 million.The attackers exploited a security flaw in 7pay, a mobile payment app developed by 7-Eleven. Popular supermarket chain 7-Eleven has become the latest victim in a cyber attack. Attackers banked on a security flaw in 7-Eleven’s 7pay and...

Attackers infiltrated NASA’s network through a Raspberry Pi computer

A recent report by NASA OIG disclosed that the attackers used a Raspberry Pi in its April 2018 data breach.It also mentions that the hackers stole around 500 MB of data in the breach. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has confirmed that the April 2018 data breach was carried out using a Raspberry...

Data Protection Standards Need To Be Global

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The 4 Myths Revealed in CrowdStrike’s Threat Hunting Workshop

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Hackers Coming After Android Users With Windows Malware

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Zero-trust models can fix cloud security, but most firms are sticking to (very) old tricks

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Zscaler platform analyses the streaming impact of the Winter Games

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Sprint’s Zscaler Partnership: What’s the Carrier’s Enterprise Play?

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Slack Resetting Thousands of User Passwords After Learning 2015 Breach Was Worse Than Previously Known

/July 22, 2019

Ascension Global Technology To Co-Host Charity Event With New Town Connections and Bay To Bae

/August 13, 2018

Delta Munoz Champions Meals On Wheels For Bay To Bae Charity Event

/June 21, 2018

Workplace Cybersecurity Awareness Training Launch

/April 30, 2018

Two Women Entrepreneurs Join Forces to Improve Workplace Cybersecurity Awareness

/January 29, 2018

Ascension Global Technology Joins International Effort to Support Data Privacy

/January 22, 2018

Ascension Global Technology Joins Movement to Shine a Spotlight on Fraud

/November 12, 2017

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Blogs

BEWARE, INSTAGRAM USERS.

August 19, 2019

Credit Karma glitch exposed users to other people’s accounts

August 19, 2019

700K Guest Records Stolen in Choice Hotels Breach

August 14, 2019

What are millennials looking for in the workplace?

August 9, 2019

State Farm customer accounts breached in credential stuffing attack

August 8, 2019

Bug in Twitter platform may have allowed advertising partners to view some user data

August 7, 2019

IKEA inadvertently exposed over 400 email addresses due to human error

August 5, 2019

Threat Spotlight: Lateral Phishing

August 2, 2019

Capital One data breach impacts 100 million Americans and 6 million Canadians

July 30, 2019

Okta Device Trust: Get the Most out of Integrating Identity + Endpoint Management

July 26, 2019

New attack campaign targets vulnerable WordPress sites to alter their titles

July 1, 2019

Latest Developments Revealed at Fal.Con 2018 POWER UP Conference

September 20, 2018

Why ITAD Companies Can No Longer Be Glorified Garbage Collectors

September 20, 2018

Black Hat + DEF CON 2018

August 13, 2018

Data Center Decommissioning Tips

August 13, 2018

Maximize Benefits With A Cloud-First Strategy

July 26, 2018

It’s Time To Adopt A Zero-Trust Security Model

July 18, 2018

Inaugural Zenith Live Zscaler Cloud Summit A Resounding Success

July 2, 2018

The Rise of Banking Trojans and Angler Phishing

June 25, 2018

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