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Major Data Breach at Air Europa: Credit Card Details at Risk

TDS Team / October 11, 2023

Air Europa discloses a cyberattack that compromised the credit card details of its customers, raising concerns about data security. The cybersecurity landscape is evolving rapidly, highlighting ongoing challenges for businesses, as seen in the recent breach at Air Europa, the Spanish airline, in safeguarding customer data in this digital age. After the breach, the company […]

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Massive HTTP/2 Rapid Reset DDoS Attacks: How Cloudflare, Google, and Amazon Fought Back

TDS Team / October 10, 2023

The tech giant issued a warning, emphasizing that any enterprise or individual using HTTP/2 for web applications, services, and APIs could be vulnerable. Cloudflare began analyzing the attack method and the underlying vulnerability in late August. The company reports that an unknown threat actor exploited a weakness in the widely used HTTP/2 protocol to launch

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Snap Inc.’s ‘My AI’ Under Scrutiny by UK Regulators

TDS Team / October 8, 2023

The ICO’s provisional findings reveal shortcomings in Snap’s assessment of privacy risks associated with AI. The UK’s data protection regulator is scrutinizing Snap’s AI chatbot, expressing concerns about potential privacy risks to children. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced today that it has issued a preliminary enforcement notice to Snap, citing a “potential failure by

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Ransomware Deployment: Cybercriminals Strike Within One Day

TDS Team / October 6, 2023

Hackers are now striking with ransomware within 24 hours of gaining initial access to their victims’ networks, a sharp decrease from the previous year’s 4.5-day average. A recent threat report indicates that cybercriminals are now deploying ransomware within just one day of initially compromising their targets, marking a significant reduction from the 4.5 days it

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The Clop Gang’s Targeting of Sony’s Sensitive Data

TDS Team / October 5, 2023

Sony’s 6,791-User Data Breach: Explore the timeline and aftermath of a recent data breach affecting thousands. Sony Interactive Entertainment (Sony) directly informed current and former employees, as well as their family members, about a cybersecurity breach that exposed their personal information. The company sent data breach notifications to approximately 6,800 individuals, confirming that an unauthorized

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NATO’s Cybersecurity Challenge: SiegedSec’s 9 GB Data Theft

TDS Team / October 4, 2023

NATO is currently conducting an investigation into data theft from its unclassified websites, with hacker group SiegedSec claiming to have stolen 9 GB of data. NATO is presently investigating allegations of data theft from unclassified websites under its jurisdiction. The hacking collective SiegedSec, which gained notoriety for its involvement in several recent cyberattacks targeting U.S.

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Legal Challenges of Facial Recognition in the United Kingdom

TDS Team / October 3, 2023

The Police National Database houses millions of mugshot images, including those of individuals arrested but not charged. Deleting these images has been deemed impractical. The United Kingdom’s crime and policing minister, Chris Philp, has announced new plans to use the facial images of more than 45 million individuals stored in Britain’s passport database to aid

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Johnson Controls Falls Victim to Ransomware Attack

TDS Team / September 29, 2023

The group developed its ransomware using leaked Babuk source code, a technique that has been adopted by multiple threat actors to create their own malicious software. In a recent SEC submission, Johnson Controls revealed that a cybersecurity incident disrupted some of its internal IT infrastructure and applications this week. Currently, they are conducting an ongoing

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State Department email breach in the cyberattack

Chinese Hackers Expose State Department’s Vulnerability

TDS Team / September 28, 2023

Chinese hackers successfully breached Microsoft’s email platform, compromising 60,000 emails from the U.S. State Department. Moreover, these Chinese hackers, who managed to breach Microsoft’s (MSFT.O) email platform this year, reportedly seized tens of thousands of emails from U.S. State Department accounts. This information was provided by a Senate staffer to Reuters on Wednesday. The staffer,

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ChatGPT’s Game-Changing Web Update

TDS Team / September 27, 2023

OpenAI has introduced a significant update to ChatGPT, enabling users to browse the web and access real-time information beyond its previous cutoff date. On Wednesday, OpenAI, with support from Microsoft (MSFT.O), made a groundbreaking announcement that’s set to reshape the capabilities of ChatGPT. This update grants ChatGPT users the remarkable ability to browse the web,

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