Cybersecurity

United States – LinkedIn

Bad actors have dropped notice that they’ve obtained an archive containing data purportedly scraped from 500 million LinkedIn profiles. A sample of data was posted on a popular hacker forum, with another 2 million records leaked as proof of the haul. More than 780,000 email addresses are associated with this leak. The initial listing contained…

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United States – Office Depot

Security researchers discovered a non-password-protected Elasticsearch database belonging to Office Depot that contained just under a million records. The exposed records were labeled as “Production” and contained customer information, file logs and other internal records for European customers, primarily in Germany. The company has addressed the issue. Here’s the full story

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United States – Illinois Office of the Attorney General

The DopplePaymer ransomware gang has leaked a large collection of files from the Illinois Office of the Attorney General after the agency declined to pay the ransom that the gang demanded. The cybercriminals released information from court cases orchestrated by the Illinois OAG, including some private documents that do not appear in public records. the…

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Cybersecurity

8 Tips to Maintain Cyber Hygiene

The COVID-19 pandemic made companies realize that how important it is to protect their data. Moreover, they have realized that how crucial the role of MSPs and other IT service providers is in protecting the data. As vaccines continue to roll out, businesses are now moving from remote work to hybrid work environment. With this…

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