A superhero hacker saved the Internet this weekend

A superhero hacker saved the Internet this weekend

A long con social engineering attack that could have resulted in a large number of Internet servers being backdoored was detected and blocked this weekend thanks to the heroic work of one hacker. Postgres developer Andres Freund, who is currently employed by Microsoft, stumbled on the issue a few weeks ago when he noticed performance …

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Bank of America admits data breach after supply chain hack

Bank of America admits data breach after supply chain hack

Infosys McCamish Systems (IMS) – a subsidiary of Indian consulting giant Infosys, owned by Rishi Sunak’s wife’s family – was breached last November, when “an unauthorised third party” accessed its network. According to Bank of America’s data breach notification, it took IMS 21 days to notify the bank that “data concerning deferred compensation plans serviced …

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