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British Airways Fined £20m For Data Breach Affecting Over 400,000 Customers The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined British Airways (BA) £20m ($26m) for failing to protect the personal and financial details of more than 400,000 of its customers. In June 2018, the personal data of approximately 429,612 customers and staff, is believed to have
The Week In Ransomware – October 16th 2020 – The Weekend Is Upon Us Ransomware continues to target government entities and the enterprise, while victims quietly pay ransoms that power this cycle of attacks. This week we learned that government software provider Tyler Technologies paid a ransom to obtain a decryptor for their attack. We also learned
Google Warned Users Of 33,000 State-Sponsored Attacks in 2020 Google delivered over 33,000 alerts to its users during the first three quarters of 2020 to warn them of state-sponsored phishing attacks targeting their accounts. “In these cases, we also shared our findings with the campaigns and the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” Shane Huntley, Director at
Nation-State Actor Hit Google With The Largest DDoS Attack In an overview of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) trends targeting its network links, Google revealed that in 2017 a nation-state actor used massive firepower that amounted to more than 2.54 terabits per second. The actor targeted thousands of Google IP addresses at the same time and used several