For security, we have to stop picking up the phone
How do you know that the person on the other end of a phone call is really who they say they are? Earlier in July, a Ferrari executive was flooded with a barrage of WhatsApp…
Zack Whittaker
Zack Whittaker
Transport for London outages drag into weekend after cyberattack
Transport for London, the government body overseeing the U.K. capital’s public transit system, said it is experiencing online outages due to an “ongoing cyber security incident” set to drag into the weekend. TfL, which runs…
Halliburton confirms data was stolen in ongoing cyberattack
Energy giant Halliburton has confirmed its systems were hacked and that intruders “accessed and exfiltrated information” following a cyberattack last week. In a brief filing with government regulators on Tuesday, Halliburton said it was “evaluating…
Russian government hackers found using exploits made by spyware companies NSO and Intellexa
Google says it has evidence that Russian government hackers are using exploits that are “identical or strikingly similar” to those previously made by spyware makers Intellexa and NSO Group. In a blog post on Thursday,…
Ex-Twitter CISO Lea Kissner appointed as LinkedIn security chief
LinkedIn has a new chief information security officer, Lea Kissner. Announcing the appointment in a LinkedIn post (fittingly), Kissner said they are “excited” to take on the new role. Kissner most recently served as CISO at…
The U.S. military’s latest psyop? Advertising on Tinder
The U.S. military is using ads to warn people across Lebanon not to attack the United States or its allies amid rising tensions across the Middle East. Some of those ads have turned up in…
Halliburton shuts down systems after cyberattack
Oil drilling and fracking giant Halliburton said it has shut down some of its internal systems following a cyberattack earlier this week. In a brief statement filed with government regulators on Thursday, Halliburton said it…
FlightAware warns that some customers’ info has been ‘exposed,’ including Social Security numbers
Flight tracking site FlightAware has blamed a “configuration error” for exposing a raft of personal information of its customers, including some of their Social Security numbers. The company, which claims to be one of the…
How the ransomware attack at Change Healthcare went down: A timeline
A ransomware attack earlier this year on UnitedHealth-owned health tech company Change Healthcare likely stands as one of the largest data breaches of U.S. health and medical data in history. Months after the February data…
Texas firm says it lost $60M in a bank wire transfer scam
Texas-headquartered carbon black company Orion informed investors that it lost $60 million after falling victim to a criminal scheme that resulted in “multiple fraudulently induced outbound wire transfers to accounts controlled by unknown third parties.” …