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CrowdStrike CEO releases statement on global IT outage
CrowdStrike CEO and founder George Kurtz released an official statement Friday – in an attempt to explain to thousands of customers worldwide – how the largest IT outage in world history came to be, and how the American cybersecurity firm plans to make sure it never happens again.
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CrowdStrike airline delays reverberate in wake of IT outage
Delta, American, and United Airlines, all impacted by the CrowdStrike IT outage, say some operations are back online after thousands of US flight delays and cancelations.
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Shoppers won’t receive furniture orders after ransomware attack
Basset Furniture, one of the oldest furniture manufacturers in the US, is stopping its manufacturing operations after a ransomware attack on its systems.
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Widespread IT outage affects banking, media, airlines and other services
Shopping baskets blocking self-serve checkouts, crowds at airports, banks offline – widespread IT outages have sent multiple systems haywire.
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FBI cracks Trump shooter phone in 40 minutes (with some outside help)
After numerous attempts, the FBI has finally unlocked the cell phone belonging to the man who tried to assassinate Donald Trump at a Presidential campaign rally last weekend – and it only took 40 minutes – with some outside help from an Israeli cyber intel firm.
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AT&T reports arrest made in April hack, updates affected customers
AT&T reveals an arrest has been made related to the April 14th hack of 109 million landline and mobile customers in an updated post to customers Wednesday.
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Ransomware recovery in energy, water sectors hits $3M, quadrupling in one year
The median ransomware recovery cost for two critical infrastructure sectors, energy and water, has quadrupled to $3 million in a year, according to Sophos.
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London Borough of Hackney reprimanded over cyberattack
At least 280,000 residents of London's trendy Hackney borough were affected by a cyberattack in 2020 when bad actors gained access to the local council's systems and encrypted 440,000 files.
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Coinbase third-party breach reveals bank account numbers
The American cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase is notifying customers “out of an abundance of caution” of a recent third-party data breach that may involve some of their personal information.
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Internet users with disabilities guaranteed web access under new rule
The US government has published new regulations requiring all webpages and mobile apps to be ADA-compliant, guaranteeing accessibility for individuals with disabilities, such as vision and hearing loss.
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Musk will move X platform, SpaceX to Texas over new California law
Tech billionaire Elon Musk said on Tuesday that his social media platform X and space engineering rocket company SpaceX will move to Texas after California’s governor passes a controversial law affecting school-age children.
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Millions of Rite Aid customers’ names, IDs exposed
Attackers impersonated an employee of Rite Aid, a top US drugstore chain, to access the personal data of over two million of its customers.
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Trump picks Silicon Valley insider as Vice Presidential running mate
Former US President Donald Trump has announced the tech sector friendly J.D. Vance, a US senator from Ohio, as his pick for Vice Presidential nominee Monday. Will Big Tech will be on the chopping block for this potential duo?
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Copycat assassin accounts spread across social media after Trump shooting
Copycat assassins, Russian trolls, conspiracy theorists, and misogynists take to social media after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.
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Germany finishes dumping $3 billion worth of bitcoin seized from Movie2k
Significant bitcoin market price fluctuations have been caused by the Saxony public prosecutor’s office since June 19th.
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AT&T pays threat actor $370,000 to delete stolen data – media
The multinational telecommunications company reportedly paid hackers almost $400,000 to delete the data stolen from nearly all AT&T customers.
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Rite Aid breached (again) according to new ransomware claim
The Rite Aid Corporation, an American chain of drugstores located in almost every town and city across 16 states, has allegedly been hit by ransomware.
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Nearly all customers affected by new AT&T data breach
AT&T, the American multinational telecommunication company, has said that customer data was illegally downloaded from a third-party cloud platform, and nearly all customers are affected.
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‘Magic soap’ producer discloses data breach, but details are scarce
All One God Faith, a.k.a. Dr Bronner’s, has suffered a data security incident that “potentially exposed personal information.
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UEFA 2024 finals cause dramatic drop in internet traffic
EU Football fans watching their home teams compete in the UEFA European Championship are significantly impacting internet traffic trends within own countries, Cloudflare analysts found.
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