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Election Security Threats Explored: DEF CON Reveals SQL Injection Exposure

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Two 11-year-old budding hackers last week at DEF CON in Las Vegas used SQL injection attack code to break into a replica of the Florida Secretary of State's website within 15 minutes, altering vote count reports on the site.


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PGA of America Ransomware Attack Locks Employees Out of Marketing Files

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While golfing fans have been all about this week's PGA Championship, extortion-minded hackers were more focused on the PGA of America's computer servers.


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SingHealth Cyber Attack Analysis: A Potential State-Sponsored Threat

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Last month’s cyber-attack on SingHealth, which resulted in the breach of 1.5 million health records, might have been the work of an advanced persistent threat group, according to information disclosed by S. Iswaran, Singapore’s minister for communications and information in Parliament today.


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Amnesty International Spyware Attack Via WhatsApp Message

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Amnesty International has been spearphished by a WhatsApp message bearing links to what the organization believes to be malicious, powerful spyware: specifically, Pegasus, which has been called History’s Most Sophisticated Tracker Program.


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Reddit: Security Advisory On Compromised SMS 2FA Accounts

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Reddit has become the latest big-name tech firm to admit to a major data breach, after hackers compromised staff accounts by intercepting SMS-based two-factor authentication codes.


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Yale University: Data Breach From 2008-2009 Cyber Incident

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Yale University has disclosed a security breach which occurred a decade ago.


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Clarksons: 2017 Data Breach - Unauthorized Access Via Single User Account

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Clarkson PLC has revealed that a single user account was at the crux of a data breach resulting in the theft of confidential information.


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Idaho Inmates Hack JPay Tablets: $225,000 Theft Revealed

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Hundreds of tech-savvy inmates at several Idaho correctional facilities have been caught exploiting a software vulnerability on their state-funded tablets to artificially increase account balances.


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Russian Hackers Target US Utilities Using Vendor Networks

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By penetrating the networks of downline vendors, Russian hackers gained access to a reportedly secure, isolated network, allowing them to eventually reach the control rooms of US utilities, according to the Wall Street Journal.


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Virginian National Bank: Cybercrime Threats and Phishing Woes

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The perils of phishing emails and cyber-insurance were laid bare this week after news emerged of an American bank that fell victim to hackers twice within eight months and is suing its provider for failing to cover the losses.


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US Department of Homeland Security: Russian Cyber Attacks on Utilities

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The US Department of Homeland Security, which earlier this year warned of Russian nation-state hacking teams targeting energy and other critical infrastructure organizations, in a briefing this week provided more details on the attack campaign.


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Robocent Data Breach: Exposed Voter Records in Unsecured S3 Bucket

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A Virginia-based political campaign and robocalling company Robocent left hundreds of thousands of voter records on a public, exposed and unprotected Amazon S3 bucket. This year has already seen a lineup of attempted attacks on local elections and campaigns, but this news comes less than a week after the indictment of 12 Russian officials for meddling in the 2016 US presidential election.


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Singapore Healthcare Data Breach: Insights on Cybersecurity Awareness

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This week, Singapore is reminded again that no matter how much we talk about how highly aware we are about the importance of cybersecurity and how we must put stronger focus on securing our systems, that our seemingly highly-focused highly-secured infrastructures will be breached.


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IoT Attack: Anarchy's Extensive Botnet of 18,000 Compromised Devices

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How long does it take to build a botnet? Not long, if you consider Anarchy's 18,000-device-strong creation, brought to life in only 24 hours.


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LabCorp Data Security Incident: Numerous Patient Records Exposed

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LabCorp, a healthcare diagnostics company, has shut down its systems after a suspected network breach, which could have put millions of health records at risk.


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US Election Systems Vulnerability: Remote Access Threat

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In the US, vote-counting computers used in government elections contained a security vulnerability which could have been used to affect election results. The systems, which were sold by Elections Systems & Software (ES&S), contained remote-access software and were sold between 2000 and 2006, with some machines still being used as late as 2011.

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