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• Employees Out of Work after ASCO Hit by Ransomware

  13-06-2019 20:34
  Employees Out of Work after ASCO Hit by RansomwareNearly 1,000 employees in ASCO’s Zaventem, Belgium, office have been left incapable of doing their jobs after a ransomware attack crippled the aircraft-parts manufacturer, according to a June 11 report from vrt NWS.“From the ISF’s standpoint, everyone who has access to an organization’s information and systems should be made aware of the risks from ransomware and the actions required to minimize those risks,” said St
  
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• Gaming's All Fun and Games Till Someone Gets Hacked

  13-06-2019 20:27
  Gaming's All Fun and Games Till Someone Gets HackedCyber-criminals are playing games with the gaming industry according to two new reports published by Akamai and Kaspersky.  The Akamai 2019 State of the Internet/Security Web Attacks and Gaming Abuse Report found that cyber-criminals have targeted the gaming industry by carrying out 12 billion credential-stuffing attacks against gaming websites, with a total of 55 billion credential-stuffing attacks across all industries within the 17-month
  
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• AGs Warn ACMA Breach Impact Rose to over 20 Million

  13-06-2019 17:40
  AGs Warn ACMA Breach Impact Rose to over 20 MillionAfter the data of more than 20 million patients was potentially exposed during the cyber-attack against American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), the third-party collection agency for laboratories, hospitals, physician groups, medical providers and others, attorney generals (AGs) in such states as New Jersey, Illinois, Connecticut and Maryland have started alerting citizens and looking for answers to exactly what happened.&l
  
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• Suspended door supervisor pleads guilty to working unlicensed

  13-06-2019 14:19
  Suspended Cardiff door supervisor pleaded guilty to working while unlicensed.
  
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• UK Orgs Lose 2.5 Months a Year on Poor Password Management

  13-06-2019 12:25
  UK Orgs Lose 2.5 Months a Year on Poor Password ManagementBusinesses in the UK lose an average of two-and-a-half months per year in time spent dealing with poor password management, according to new research from OneLogin.As detailed in its report Password Practices 2019, OneLogin surveyed 600 global IT professionals to gauge how companies are protecting passwords in terms of tools, guidelines and practices.The key findings indicated that companies spend too much time resetting passwords that us
  
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• UK Orgs Lose 2 & 1/2 Months a Year on Poor Password Management

  13-06-2019 12:25
  UK Orgs Lose 2 & 1/2 Months a Year on Poor Password ManagementBusinesses in the UK lose an average of two-and-a-half months per year in time spent dealing with poor password management, according to new research from OneLogin.As detailed in its report Password Practices 2019, OneLogin surveyed 600 global IT professionals to gauge how companies are protecting passwords in terms of tools, guidelines and practices.The key findings indicated that companies spend too much time resetting passwords
  
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• “Major Flaw” Discovered in Evernote’s Chrome Extension

  13-06-2019 11:01
  “Major Flaw” Discovered in Evernote’s Chrome ExtensionA major flaw has been discovered in the code of the Web Clipper Chrome extension of note-taking service Evernote.The flaw, a universal XSS marked CVE-2019-12592 which could have allowed threat actors to extract personal information from the browser environment, was unearthed by security company Guardio and disclosed to Evernote in late May. Within a week, Evernote addressed the issue and rolled-out a complete fix.Accord
  
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