Kelowna nurse Ashley Stone sits down at her kitchen table, opens a bulky blue folder containing a paper trail of 10 years of multiple frauds committed in her name by imposters and gets right to the point. “It’s just been a nightmare.” She says she’s had to repeatedly put out “fires” and convince debt collectors...Read More
Some of the nation’s biggest banks were scrambling on Saturday night to assess the fallout from a large-scale hack of a vendor whose compromise could expose sensitive customer data. The vendor, SitusAMC, has been deployed by hundreds of banks and other lenders to help originate and collect money from real estate loans and mortgages. The...Read More
Until recently, Tim Haugh was among America’s top spymasters. The four-star general spent 33 years in Air Force Intelligence and rose to lead America’s largest and most advanced intelligence agency. Haugh was also in charge of defending America from computer threats. In his first television interview since retirement, General Haugh is here to warn that...Read More
A popular prayer app used in Iran is believed to have been hacked after it began urging users to lay down their weapons on Saturday following airstrikes by the U.S. and Israel. The messages, as reported by WIRED Middle East, were sent in quick succession over a 30-minute period to users of “BadeSaba Calendar.” The...Read More
I’m Sid Yenamandra, CEO of Entreda, and welcome to CyberCrypt Tales. This is a monthly section in Wealth Solutions Report where I’ll cover the most common cybersecurity related issues, the most outrageous situations we see out there and how to best address in case this ever happens to you. All names have been changed and...Read More
What comes to mind when you hear “child poverty”? The term “child poverty” is younger than it looks. As a modern political category, it emerged in Britain in 1965, when a group of academics and social workers founded the Child Poverty Action Group and sent a letter to Prime Minister Harold Wilson warning that half...Read More
This image shows logo of Geo News. — Geo News Geo News wants to inform its viewers that over the past 24 hours, certain elements have been attempting to hack the channel, which broadcasts on Pakistan’s satellite, Paksat, and disrupt its transmission. On Sunday, during the 9 pm bulletin, Geo News’ satellite beam was hacked...Read More
While very different, there is a lot of common ground between the Formula 1’s International Automobile Federation (FIA) and the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR). However, today we won’t be discussing similarities in team structures and driver development; instead, we’ll focus on the fact that both organizations experienced cybersecurity incidents earlier this...Read More
A recent IBM report, which looked at data breaches experienced by about 600 organisations worldwide found that the average cost was $4.4m (or £3.3m). But JLR is far from an outlier when it comes to high-profile cyber attacks on an even greater scale. Those at Marks & Spencer and the Co-op supermarket chain this year...Read More
Government ID photos of about 70,000 global users of Discord, a popular messaging and chat platform among video gamers, may have been exposed after hackers compromised a company contracted to carry out age verification checks. Some users’ names, email addresses and other contact details, IP addresses and messages with Discord’s customer service agents may also...Read More
