The UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) agency is now researching a ransomware incident that encrypted data and impacted its proprietary services. The impacted services include a service offering information to subscribers and the platform for peer review of various parts of the agency. The agency has not yet disclosed if data was stolen or any…
Nissan North America recently suffered a data breach that resulted in source code for its mobile apps and internal tools turning up online. The data leak is reportedly the result of a misconfigured Git server. The source code, as reported by a security researcher, pertains to Nissan NA Mobile apps, some parts of the Nissan…
Serverless computing is a misnomer. Computing is impossible without the presence of a machine. Just like a virus needs a host, code can also not run in thin air, it needs machine resources to take input, process, and then produce output. So then what is serverless computing, and why is it gaining so much popularity? Basically serverless computing is…
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) announced that it has experienced a data breach as a result of an unauthorized access incident at a third-party file-sharing service used by the bank to share and store some sensitive information. The nature and extent of information that has been potentially accessed is still being determined. Here’s…
T-Mobile has found itself embroiled in a “malicious hacking incident” that has resulted in data exposure for an estimated 200,000 clients. The company said in a statement that Customer proprietary network information (CPNI) was accessed and may have included phone numbers, the number of lines on the account and call-related information. Here’s the full story
South Country Health Alliance, a county-owned health plan based in Owatonna, MN, experienced a data breach after a successful phishing attack let cybercriminals access the protected health data and personal information of more than 60K members. The incident has been under investigation since the attack was first confirmed in September 2020, and the filing made…
On November 28, 2020, the AWS outage took down a large portion of the internet and affected thousands of companies like Adobe, ConnectWise, etc., whose sites experienced outages in a domino effect. The outage was reported by many news sources like ZDnet and CNBC. The outage, which lasted several hours, occurred in AWS’ Northern Virginia, US-East-1 region, and the cause of…
