by Syndicated News Feed | Jun 20, 2025 | IT Security
Cloudflare says it mitigated a record-breaking distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in May 2025 that peaked at 7.3 Tbps, targeting a hosting provider. DDoS attacks flood targets with massive amounts of traffic with the sole aim to overwhelm servers and create...
by Syndicated News Feed | Jun 20, 2025 | IT Security
On Friday, American insurance giant Aflac disclosed that its systems were breached in a broader campaign targeting insurance companies across the United States by attackers who may have stolen personal and health information. Aflac (short for American Family Life...
by Syndicated News Feed | Jun 20, 2025 | IT Security
Like it or not, passwords aren’t going away anytime soon. While many organizations are exploring passwordless authentication, passwords still serve as the main line of defense for most public-facing online services. That said, they come with a heavy management burden....
by Syndicated News Feed | Jun 20, 2025 | IT Security
Oxford City Council says a cyberattack earlier this month resulted in 21 years of data being compromised. It said “some historic data on legacy systems” was accessed by unauthorized attackers, namely the personal information of people who worked on...
by Syndicated News Feed | Jun 19, 2025 | IT Security
News broke today of a “mother of all breaches,” sparking wide media coverage filled with warnings and fear-mongering. However, it appears to be a compilation of previously leaked credentials stolen by infostealers, exposed in data breaches, and via...
by Syndicated News Feed | Jun 19, 2025 | IT Security
A new version of the Android malware “Godfather” creates isolated virtual environments on mobile devices to steal account data and transactions from legitimate banking apps. These malicious apps are executed inside a controlled virtual environment on the...
