On the Dark Web, there's a live webcast show called "NulledCast" that few people have ever heard of. It's pretty popular in Dark Web circles, though.
The premise of the show is this: The hosts will hack the cameras in home security systems and mess with the owners.
Recently, the Magento Marketplace was acquired by Adobe and suffered a breach of exposure for a limited amount of user data to an unknown third party.
When Adobe discovered evidence of the breach, they temporarily shut the marketplace down so they could assess the extent of the breach.
Recently the US branch of the global telecom company T-Mobile disclosed a security breach that impacted more than 1 million customer's personal data. The T-mobile data breach revealed certain information belonging to a small number of the company's prepaid cellphone users.
In case you weren't already aware, Disney recently launched a new video streaming service called Disney+, driving Netflix and other established streaming services crazy with fear and apprehension. Disney's support center was overwhelmed by the number of people calling in.
Do you have a Netflix account? And, have you ever done password sharing with family or friends?
If so, you know how awesome the service is. Intuitive and easy to use, and of special interest, easy to share.
In fact, password sharing among family and friends is so common that it's even openly discussed on discussion forums around the web.
Billtust is a major player in the US financial services sector that provides a variety of billing and payment processing services for some of the biggest financial institutions in the nation. Then, on October 17th, they suffered a malware attack that brought all of their services to a grinding halt.
Pitney Bowes Hit by Ransomware
Pitney Bowes ransomware attack will affect small business owners. If you're a business owner, you probably utilize at least a few of the services Pitney Bowes offers. They maintain global shipping, mailing, e-commerce, and financial services empire that touches just about every country on the planet.
American Express experienced internal problems due to an untrustworthy employee. Afterward, American Express quietly contacted some of its customers with a tersely worded communication that reads, in part, as follows:
"It was brought to our attention that personal information related to your American Express Card account listed above may have been wrongfully accessed by one of our employees in an attempt to conduct fraudulent activity, including potentially opening accounts at other financial institutions.
The popular video site Vimeo now finds itself in hot water and faces a lawsuit for allegedly violating the Illinois Biometrics Information Privacy Act. Moreover, the act requires all private companies collecting biometric information to maintain a publicly available, written policy that explains their practices concerning this type of information.
Recently, an independent researcher named Bob Diachenko worked collaboratively with Comparitech. They discovered an unsecured database containing nearly 700,000 hotel records belonging to Choice Hotels. Unfortunately, although Diachenko reported his finding to the company, hackers had beaten him to the punch and had already downloaded the file.
