Breach Detection Blog

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has issued a warning about the possibility of cyber attacks from Iran in the wake of the killing of the top Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani. 

Security sources have found that the European aerospace giant Airbus has been hit by a series of cyberattacks by hackers who targeted the company's suppliers in search of technical secrets, with suspicions the attack is linked to China. 

The phone numbers associated with over 400 million Facebook accounts were exposed online in the latest privacy dilemma for the social media giant. 

Hy-Vee experienced a hack that impacted some of its payment processing systems that are associated to transactions at various Hy-Vee fuel pumps and drive-thru coffee shops.

The European Central Bank (ECB) had to shut down one of its websites after it was hacked and infected with malicious software.

Hospitality franchisor Choice Hotels, the parent organization of those franchise chains, has confirmed a breach in which attackers stole 700,000 guest records from a publicly available MongoDB database without a password or any authentication.

Following two major data breaches in the last year, the Singapore Government has announced measures to reform their data-protection standards across the public sector.

Online retailer CafePress, which specializes in custom T-shirts and merchandise, is reported to have suffered a data breach involving sensitive information of more than 23 million customers in February of 2019.

Capital one, one of the nation's leading credit card issuers, is the latest enterprise to be hit by a massive data breach, claiming that over 100 million people had their personal information stolen by a hacker. 

In the cybersecurity world, testing for the existence of exploitable vulnerabilities isn’t always an exact science. Checking for open ports (CIS Control 9 - Limitation and Control of Network Ports, Protocols and Services) sounds simple enough, but the reality is a long way off.