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Russia-linked Energetic Bear APT behind San Francisco airport attacks

Security Affairs

The Energetic Bear APT group has been active since at least 2010 most of the victims of the group are organizations in the energy and industrial sectors. The Energetic Bear APT group has been active since at least 2010 most of the victims of the group are organizations in the energy and industrial sectors.

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Nine-year Malaysia Airlines breach gave attackers lots of time to misuse data

SC Magazine

Malaysia Airlines faces the daunting task of investigating over nine years’ worth of compromised data after learning of a “data security incident” at a third-party IT service provider that exposed Enrich frequent flyer program member data from March 2010 through June 2019.

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FBI and CISA joint alert blames Russia’s Energetic Bear APT for US government networks hack

Security Affairs

A joint security advisory published by The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) revealed that Russia-linked APT group Energetic Bear has breached US government networks and exfiltrated data. printing access badges.

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CIA elite hacking unit was not able to protect its tools and cyber weapons

Security Affairs

A CIA elite hacking unit that developed cyber-weapons failed in protecting its operations, states an internal report on the Vault 7 data leak. ” continues the report “While CIA was an early leader in securing our enterprise information technology (IT) system, we failed to correct acute vulnerabilities to our mission IT systems.”.

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Cyber Security Roundup for April 2021

Security Boulevard

roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, March 2021. UK fashion retailer FatFace angered customers in its handling of a customer data theft hack. review Active Directory password policy. How not to disclosure a Hack.

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Data of 2 million MyFreeCams users sold on a hacker forum

Security Affairs

The seller claims that the data related MyFreeCams was stolen in December 2020 through an SQL injection attack. Stolen records belong to 2 million user records of MyFreeCams Premium members, they include usernames, email addresses, MyFreeCams Token (MFC Token) amounts, and passwords in plain text. ” reported CyberNews.

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MY TAKE: Identity ‘access’ and ‘governance’ tech converge to meet data protection challenges

The Last Watchdog

Not long afterwards, in about the 2010 time frame, IAM vendors first arrived on the scene, including Optimal IdM, Centrify, Okta and CyberArk, followed by many others. Efforts to balance security and productivity sometimes backfired. And the massive data breaches just keep on coming.