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Water utilities group partners with DEF CON offshoot for Water Watch Center
The Record reports: A national water association is creating a program designed to provide threat intelligence and cybersecurity services to underfunded water and wastewater systems across the U.S. On Friday, the National Rural Water Association (NRWA) launched a partnership with DEF CON Franklin — an organization that has sought to pair volunteer cybersecurity experts with cash-strapped water […]
Levi Strauss says hackers breached employee computers, accessed corporate data
The Record reports: Levi Strauss & Co. disclosed on Friday that suspected hackers gained unauthorized access to company files after compromising employees’ computers, making the iconic American apparel maker the latest retailer to report a cybersecurity incident. In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the denim company said an unauthorized third party accessed and […]
Personal details could have been leaked as 1,500 charities hit by cyber-attack
Non-profit organizations are not immune to cyberattacks by unscrupulous threat actors. In this case, a third-party vendor was hit, as Yahoo! UK reports: An investigation has been launched after Southampton Hospitals Charity is among 1,500 potentially affected by a cyber attack. Southampton Hospitals Charity confirmed it is one of the charities targeted in a cyber-security […]
Canadian man pleads guilty to Snowflake hacks that led to 165 breaches
The Record reports: A Canadian national is facing decades in prison for participating in the hacking of data storage platform Snowflake. Connor Riley Moucka, 26, pleaded guilty to computer fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and a related conspiracy on Wednesday in a Washington state federal court. He will be sentenced on October 27 and […]
Ransom Cartel Creator Gets 16 Years in Prison for Operating Ransomware-as-a-Service
The Hacker News reports: A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, sentenced Maksim Silnikau to 16 years in prison on August 5 for creating and running Ransom Cartel, the ransomware-as-a-service operation he stood up in 2021. Between 2021 and 2023, Ransom Cartel conspirators attacked at least 18 companies, including firms in California, New York and Nebraska, and others abroad, […]
ShinyHunters leaks almost 900 GB of Ernst & Young data
There is an update to the data security incident involving Ernst & Young, which ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for. Ernst & Young did not confirm that ShinyHunters was responsible for the breach, but in its latest update, ShinyHunters adds additional details to its claims and leaks the data. Ernst & Young disclosed the breach in July, […]
Online advertising giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are necessary
~this week in security~ reports a hack that should remind consumers to use an ad blocker when they browse the internet: Online ads provider Adform was hacked. On July 27, the company began serving ads containing malicious code. The company says in its annual report that its serves 1.5 billion ads to people’s devices daily. […]
Ten Takeaways from IBM’s 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report
From the Baker Donelson law firm: IBM has released its annual Cost of a Data Breach Report for 2026. The 21st edition of the report analyzed 602 data breaches experienced by organizations across 17 industries between March 2025 and February 2026. It provides one of the most comprehensive views available of the financial impact of data breaches […]