Cybersafety Sentinel February 2023 Week 4 | Informatica
Weekly Insights from Cybersafety Sentinel
Stay updated with Informatica’s Cybersafety Sentinel’s February 2023 Week 4 edition. This week, we cover critical topics such as the FBI hack, school data left on auctioned laptops, Samsung zero-click malware attacks, and GoDaddy’s multi-year security breach. Gain expert strategies to enhance your cybersecurity measures and protect your digital assets.
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Claudiu’s Top Post
There *seems* to be a growing number of dropped and underreported news stories of late. One such event could be the “#FBI hack” that reportedly took place this week but was swiftly defused by a single line of the agency’s website: “This is an isolated incident that has been contained.” Was it though? Isolated, I mean. Read More
School Info Left on Auctioned Laptops
When a Texas school district sold some old laptops at auction last year, it probably didn’t expect to end up in a public legal fight with a local computer repair shop – but a debate over what to do with district data found on the liquidated machines has led to precisely that. Read More
Samsung Zero-Click Malware Attacks
Samsung has announced a new feature called Message Guard that comes with safeguards to protect users from malware and spyware via what’s referred to as zero-click attacks which exploit previously unknown flaws (i.e., zero-days) in software to trigger execution of malicious code without requiring any user interaction. Read More
Law Firm Fined For Not Stopping Hack
Judith Hawarden lost her millions after hackers changed the bank account number in a PDF emailed by the law firm. Africa’s largest law firm has been ordered to pay R5.5 million to a woman who fell victim to a syndicate that hacked her email during a property purchase. Read More
GoDaddy Malware and Source Code Theft
Web hosting services provider GoDaddy on Friday disclosed a multi-year security breach that enabled unknown threat actors to install malware and siphon source code related to some of its services. The threat actor installed malware causing the intermittent redirection of customer websites, the company said. Read More
Children’s Apps Collecting Personal Data
Consumer group Comparitech said its study of more than 400 children’s apps available on the store found that nearly 25% violated the ICO’s guidelines in some way – the vast majority by collecting personal data of some kind. The offending apps violated the ICO’s code in a number of ways. Read More
