Telstra Telecom Suffers Data Breach Potentially Exposing Employee Information

Australia's largest telecommunications company Telstra disclosed that it was the victim of a data breach through a third-party, nearly two weeks after Optus reported a breach of its own. "There has been no breach of Telstra's systems," Narelle Devine, the company's chief information security...

Want More Secure Software? Start Recognizing Security-Skilled Developers

Professional developers want to do the right thing, but in terms of security, they are rarely set up for success. Organizations must support their upskilling with precision training and incentives if they want secure software from the ground up. The cyber threat landscape grows more complex by th...

Code injection

A maliciously crafted PDF file when parsed through Autodesk AutoCAD 2023 causes an unhandled exception. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to cause a crash or read sensitive data or execute arbitrary code in the context of the current process...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: Sensitive Data Exposure at https://█████████

Sensitive data exposure was discovered in an endpoint of a website, which contained AWS S3 credentials, PATH, IP, and PORTs. This could have allowed an attacker to gain access to sensitive information on the AWS account or perform arbitrary modifications on the AWS resources...

Optus data breach "attacker" says sorry, it was a mistake

Since Australian telecoms company Optus disclosed a security breach on September 22, 2022, a lot has been happening. Much of it reads like a movie script. Prologue A hacker acting under the pseudonym "optusdata" claims to have stolen the data of 10 million Optus customers. The information include...

Swachh City Platform Suffers Data Breach Leaking 16 Million User Records

A threat actor by the name of LeakBase has shared a database containing personal information allegedly affecting 16 million users of Swachh City, an Indian complaint redressal platform. Leaked details include usernames, email addresses, password hashes, mobile numbers, one-time passwords, last...

4 times students compromised school cybersecurity

For many students school can be a tough time, and we've all heard stories about bored or frustrated kids compromising school cybersecurity to change grades. Sometimes the students are celebrated, and other times it ends in them being expelled from school, or even prosecuted. Of course, these acts...

Optus Hacker Apologizes to Australians Over Data Breach

By Waqas The hacker has also decided not to sell the stolen Optus customers' data to anyone. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Optus Hacker Apologizes to Australians Over Data Breach...

US branch of Israeli defense contractor Elbit hit by data breach

By Waqas According to the breach notification, 369 Elbit Systems employees got their information stolen by the attackers. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: US branch of Israeli defense contractor Elbit hit by data breach...

Prepare Your Organization for Compliance with the NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation

Cyberattacks are on the rise, with bad actors accelerating their nefarious exfiltration of valuable and confidential data from financial institutions, Federal agencies, healthcare organizations, and more. According to an IBM study, the Financial Services industry saw an increase in the cost of da...

Data of millions of users exposed in Australia’s 2nd-largest telecom firm breach

By Deeba Ahmed Optus has denied any inside job or human error as the cause of the hack. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Data of millions of users exposed in Australias 2nd-largest telecom firm breach...

IT Security Takeaways from the Wiseasy Hack

Last month Tech Crunch reported that payment terminal manufacturer Wiseasy had been hacked. Although Wiseasy might not be well known in North America, their Android-based payment terminals are widely used in the Asia Pacific region and hackers managed to steal passwords for 140,000 payment...

Morgan Stanley's years-long "extensive failure" to protect customer data ends in huge fine

On Tuesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission SEC charged financial company Morgan Stanley a $35M fine for "the firm's extensive failures, over five years, to protect the personal identifying information, or PII, of approximately 15 million customers. The company agreed to settle the penalty...

CVE-2022-23696

Vulnerabilities in the web-based management interface of ClearPass Policy Manager could allow an authenticated remote attacker to conduct SQL injection attacks against the ClearPass Policy Manager instance. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to obtain and modify sensitive information...

[update] American Airlines suffers data breach after phishing incident

Major airline American Airlines has fallen victim to a data breach after a threat actor got access to the email accounts of several employees via a phishing attack. According to a published notice of a security incident, the data breach was discovered in July 2022. How it happened American Airlin...

“Oops, I insecurely coded again!”

The call is coming from inside the house It’s no secret that companies need to be vigilant about application security. However, frequently the source of application vulnerabilities may come as a surprise to security teams. While zero-day exploits are a principal focus of vulnerability mitigation...

Kiwi Farms Website Hacked! Admin Warns of Data Leak

By Waqas According to Kiwi Farms' creator Joshua Moon, the site has become a victim of a data breach leading to hijacking his administrator account and possibly users' accounts. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Kiwi Farms Website Hacked! Admin Warns of Data Leak...

Rockstar Games Confirms Hacker Stole Early Grand Theft Auto VI Footage

American video game publisher Rockstar Games on Monday revealed it was a victim of a "network intrusion" that allowed an unauthorized party to illegally download early footage for the Grand Theft Auto VI. "At this time, we do not anticipate any disruption to our live game services nor any long-te...

Uber Hacker Targets Rockstar Games, Leaks Trove of GTA 6 Data

By Waqas Rockstar Games has acknowledged the breach stating that the company is "extremely disappointed" to have any details of their next game shared with the public in such a way. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Uber Hacker Targets Rockstar Games, Leaks Trove of GTA 6 D...

Uber Downplays Data Breach Impact, Claims No Sensitive Data Stolen

By Waqas Uber is downplaying a data breach that occurred on Thursday, saying that no sensitive data was exposed. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Uber Downplays Data Breach Impact, Claims No Sensitive Data Stolen...