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A configuration failure on a server belonging to Orsegups Participações, a large Brazil-based holding company that controls seven businesses active in the property security sector, exposed a series of tax documents revealing clients’ contract values and staff information. The leak, investigated by ZDNet in partnership with Brazilian cybersecurity news website The Hack, has compromised more […] More
[embedded content] Speaking at the RSA security conference last week, Microsoft engineers said that 99.9% of the compromised accounts they track every month don’t use multi-factor authentication, a solution that stops most automated account attacks. The cloud giant said it tracks more than 30 billion login events per day and more than one billion monthly […] More
Image: Getty Images On Monday, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) released a report on the use of forced Uyghur labour in factories that are part of the supply chains of 83 global brands. The report said that over a period of two years, 80,000 Uyghurs — a Muslim Turkic minority from the far north-western […] More
The Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) is anticipating the biometric component of its digital identity play will be ready for public testing by mid-year. Appearing at Senate Estimates Thursday night, CEO Randall Brugeaud said the agency is currently ensuring that the quality of the biometric is “exactly where it needs to be” before it is pushed […] More
Virgin Media, a provider of telephone, television, and internet services in the UK, disclosed today a data breach that was caused by a database server left exposed online without a password. The incident exposed the personal details of approximately 900,000 customers, representing around 15% of the company’s entire customer base. Exposed data varies by user, […] More
Brazil tops the global ranking in cyber threats distributed via email and ransomware, according to a new study by software firm Trend Micro. According to the report, which analyzes the security landscape for 2019, Brazil has seen over 2 billion email threats during 2019. This ranks the country third in the world in that kind […] More
Image via Ant Rozetsky EVRAZ, one of the world’s largest steel manufacturers and mining operations, has been hit by ransomware, a source inside the company told ZDNet today. The infection has been identified as a result of the Ryuk ransomware strain. The ransomware infection has hit and brought down the company’s North American branches. These […] More
Federal agencies are facing increasing cybersecurity risks due to a bevy of IT facilities aren’t being tracked as full-fledged data centers, according to a General Accountability Office report. As noted previously, federal agencies have been consolidating and closing data centers over the years, but a narrower definition of what facilities should fall under an optimization […] More
