According to news reports, California-based medical startup Total Testing Solutions has removed a website that allowed customers to access their test results after a customer found a vulnerability that allowed access to other people’s personal information.
BlackBerry publicly disclosed that its QNX Real Time Operating System (RTOS) is affected by a BadAlloc vulnerability—CVE-2021-22156, with a CVSS score of 9. BadAlloc is a collection of 25 vulnerabilities affecting multiple RTOSs and supporting libraries of critical infrastructure organizations and other organizations developing, maintaining, supporting, or using affected QNX-based systems.
Mobile telecommunication company T-Mobile has confirmed a data breach that reportedly affects nearly all of its U.S. customers. Hackers gained access to the company’s systems and hacked servers and databases containing the personally identifiable information of approximately 100 million customers.
A recent International Data Corporation (IDC) survey found that more than one-third of organizations worldwide have experienced a ransomware attack or breach that blocked access to systems or data in the previous 12 months.
U.S. Secret Service agents and agency task force of partners have been named in multiple categories of awards as announced by the International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators.
Over the course of these games, it’s become increasingly clear that the organizers did indeed exercise preventative measures and that despite the challenges and limitations of holding an Olympics during a pandemic, the Tokyo Olympics have been a real success story from a cybersecurity perspective. Organizers of all large-scale, televised sporting events—and indeed just all organizations in general—should look to this year’s games as a model to emulate.
The federal security grant, which totals just over $1 million will be used to bolster protection against cyber threats, upgrade the port’s wireless security network and complete a perimeter fencing project.
University of Utah Police are now using body-worn cameras to promote accountability; increase public trust; provide supportive documentation for complaints, investigations and prosecutions; and improve training opportunities.
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