April 19, 2024 at 12:16AM Frontier Communications, a Texas-based telecom provider serving 25 states, has ceased operations due to a recent cyberattack that resulted in the theft of personally identifiable information. The breach occurred on April 14, prompting Frontier to take some systems offline and disrupt normal operations. The company is investigating the incident with … Read more
November 7, 2023 at 12:34PM Throughout this year, Israel’s higher education and technology sectors have been targeted by a series of attacks. The attackers, identified as the advanced persistent threat (APT) Agonizing Serpens, associated with Iran, have exploited Web servers and deployed Web shells to gain access to networks. The attacks involve stealing sensitive information, … Read more
October 18, 2023 at 10:24AM Former US Navy IT manager, Marquis Hooper, was sentenced to five years and five months in prison after hacking into a database, stealing personally identifiable information (PII), and selling it on the dark web. Hooper and his wife, Natasha Chalk, stole the PII of over 9,000 individuals, selling it for … Read more