Author: Cybersecure California
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Student caused several iPhones to crash, turn off in cybersecurity breach at Arlington high school
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Holidays May Pose Higher Cyber Security Threat to Health Care Providers
Taking advantage of reduced staffing, cyber criminals may time their attacks to coincide with holiday periods, suggesting that physicians and other personnel at health care institutions should make sure their information technology (IT) team is on alert during the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. On Thanksgiving Day, November 23, Nashville-based Ardent Health Services and its…
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Mr. Cooper Data Breach Impacts 14.7 Million Individuals – SecurityWeek
Mortgage giant Mr. Cooper is sending notification letters to 14.7 million individuals to inform them that their personal information was stolen in a recent cyberattack. The incident was identified on October 31, resulting in certain systems being taken down, including those used for processing customer payments, the company announced in early November. On December 15,…
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Comcast’s Xfinity discloses massive data breach linked to CitrixBleed vulnerability
Dive Brief: Comcast’s Xfinity broadband entertainment platform disclosed a massive data breach involving 35.9 million customers on Monday, an incident connected to the ongoing CitrixBleed vulnerability. Xfinity promptly patched the vulnerability in Citrix software it uses in mid-October and took additional mitigation steps, the company said in an announcement. However, during a routine cybersecurity exercise…
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Play Ransomware Infected Over 300 Organizations Worldwide : FBI Warns
The Play ransomware group, also going by the name Playcrypt, has been affecting several kinds of North American, South American, and European enterprises as well as vital infrastructure since June 2022. The FBI learned of about 300 impacted companies as of October 2023 that the ransomware attackers allegedly took advantage of. The Federal Bureau of…
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Xfinity Customer Data Compromised in Attack Exploiting CitrixBleed Vulnerability
Comcast’s Xfinity is informing customers that their information has been compromised in a cyberattack that involved exploitation of the vulnerability known as CitrixBleed. CitrixBleed, officially tracked as CVE-2023-4966, is a critical vulnerability affecting Citrix’s Netscaler ADC and Gateway appliances. Malicious actors can exploit the flaw to hijack existing sessions, which can give them access to…
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October cyberattack leaked data of 14.7 million people, mortgage giant Mr. Cooper says
One of the largest mortgage loan servicers in the U.S. said the information of nearly 14.7 million people was leaked during a previously reported cyberattack in October.Mr. Cooper — which says it has more than 4.3 million customers and manages a servicing portfolio of $937 billion — filed breach notification documents with regulators in Maine…
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Ransomware cyber attack hits Milton Town School District | Local News
MTSD stated in its press release that although the financial audit was disrupted, the financial software and banking information remained unaffected. Student services files and personal student information also remained unaffected. Photographed used under the Unsplash license On Monday, Dec. 11, the Milton Town School District faced a ransomware attack that affected several files on…
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North Face, Supreme parent company says order fulfillment impacted by cybersecurity incident
<!–> Wedbush Managing Director of Equity Research Dan Ives reflects on the ‘golden age for cybersecurity’ on ‘The Claman Countdown.’ The parent company behind popular brands like The North Face, Supreme and Vans said it experienced a cybersecurity incident that affected its online order fulfillment capabilities. VF Corp. said in a Monday filing with the…
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Washington County government hit by cyber attack, officials say
FAYETTEVILLE — Washington County’s computer systems have been the target of what officials say is a continuing cyber attack that began Friday.More than 14,000 separate attempts to log into the county’s servers were detected Friday, said Tad Sours, the county’s communications director. There were more than 17,000 attempts to access county servers Saturday and the…