The Dutch government has blocked US IT giant Kindril from acquiring Solvency, the Dutch cloud provider that hosts the Netherlands’ online identity platform. The government in The Hague said the deal posed a “potential risk to the public interest”. Willemijn Aardts, Dutch Minister for the Digital Economy, said a machine-translated letter Published on Monday the…
Data Breach Notification Service Have I been taken hostage? says more than 185,000 people are affected by the data breach at convenience store chain 7-Eleven, including their names, dates of birth and physical addresses. The data breach reported in April also included phone numbers and email addresses. Have I Been Pwned, which collects a cache…
FBI Director Kash Patel’s business website was taken offline Friday following reports that hackers had hijacked it in an attempt to infect visitors with malware. As first reported by Straight Arrow News. At the time of this writing, Based Apparel’s website is offline. On Thursday, an Posted The brand’s website apparently contained malware, specifically an…
Phone provider Trump Mobile has confirmed that it is exposing customers’ names, email addresses, mailing addresses, cell numbers and order identifiers to the open Internet. Chris Walker, a spokesman for the Trump-branded phone maker, told TechCrunch that the company is investigating the exposure and has found no evidence that material or financial information was leaked…
Messaging platform giant Discord has rolled out end-to-end encrypted voice and video messaging for every user. End-to-end encryption The feature means Discord users can now communicate privately, without anyone else being able to hear their calls, not even Discord. It’s a huge privacy win for the community’s millions of users, coming on the heels of…
Hackers have compromised several popular open source projects trusted by software developers around the world in the ongoing cyber attack. On Tuesday, cyber security firm stage safety And safedip Warnings have been raised about the latest wave of so-called “supply chain” attacks, which aim to compromise developers of popular open source projects and use that…
Technology giant Cisco is cutting less than 4,000 jobs or about 5% of its workforce despite reports Better than expected profits and revenues In its fiscal third quarter. The networking equipment maker said it is reducing its workforce to change its “cost structure” and invest in AI and cybersecurity. Cisco’s decision follows a recent trend…
Electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn, which makes devices and components for Apple, Google, Nvidia and Sony among other tech giants, confirmed on Monday that it has been hit by a cyberattack that may have affected some of its factories. In a statement sent to media outlets, Foxconn said the cyberattack affected facilities in North America, and…
The community bank, which operates in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, disclosed a cybersecurity incident that exposed customers’ names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers. In an 8-k filing In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission dated May 7, the bank said it had discovered a risk to customers’ personal data…
The community bank, which operates in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, disclosed a cybersecurity incident that exposed customers’ names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers. In an 8-k filing In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission dated May 7, the bank said it had discovered a risk to customers’ personal data…
