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A misconfiguration error has exposed personal data belonging to customers of New England's largest energy provider. On March 16, Eversource discovered that one of its cloud data storage folders had erroneously been set to open access rather than to restricted access. The company serves more...

New analysis of leaked login data has revealed which movie titles most frequently feature in passwords. Specops trawled through more than 800 million breached passwords to determine which big-screen hits were favored by users. The selection was a subset of a list of 2 billion passwords that...

Security researchers have discovered that a persistent cryptocurrency mining botnet is exploiting still-unpatched Microsoft Exchange servers to grow globally. Dubbed “Prometei,” the botnet was first reported on in July 2020 and is thought to have been around since 2016, according to Cybereason...

Over a quarter (29%) of threats spotted in Q4 2020 had never before been detected in-the-wild, giving attackers an advantage over their victims, according to HP Inc. The tech giant’s latest Quarterly Threat Insights Report was compiled from data gathered from its global customers’ Sure Click...

A threat prevention firm is claiming to have access to 1.3 million breached RDP servers and their credentials, which were put up for sale on a popular dark web site. New York-headquartered Advanced Intelligence is offering a new free service enabling concerned organizations to check if their...

The US Department of Justice has reportedly launched a new ransomware task force, after an infamous threat group claimed to have stolen Apple trade secrets via a supplier. The REvil (Sodinokibi) group is reported to have posted a blog to its dark web-hosted naming and shaming site in which it...

INTERPOL is set to join The Coalition Against Stalkerware, and will help advance the group’s efforts by educating the global law enforcement community on how to proactively investigate the use of stalkerware, as well as provide support to victims. The alliance was first set up in November 2019...

A Canadian court has ordered American tech giant Google to disclose who has been operating a YouTube channel and a blog that have allegedly been used for cyber-bullying. Wife and husband Sakura Saunders and Darius Mirshahi allege that whoever is behind the blog "Antifa: Exposed" and a YouTube...

Costco Wholesale Corporation is warning American internet users to be wary of more than a dozen digital scams targeting its customer base. On its website, the American multinational corporation has published screenshots of 14 "prominent fraudulent emails, texts, and posts" in which...