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Russian hacker releases at least 14,000 Mexican taxpayer IDs Researchers at Lucy Security recently discovered that a Russian hacker named m1x breached a Mexican government web portal and three days later once the government refused to pay a ransom, publicly-released some 14,000 Mexican taxpayer ID numbers. Colin Bastable, CEO of Lucy Security, said the researchers discovered the case on
3 Easy Ways for Hard Disk Recycling Protecting Businesses Businesses and the public sector are seen as data controllers and have a duty to ensure that data is protected. This is especially important when disposing of computer equipment and doing hard disk recycling. Data security, data breaches and data protection is now becoming part of
IBM Cloud global outage caused by “incorrect” BGP routing On June 9th, 2020, IBM Cloud data centers suffered a global outage that caused connectivity issues for many of the web sites and platforms utilizing the service, including BleepingComputer. For BleepingComputer, the outage started at approximately 6:05 PM EST, and services were restored around 9:00 PM.
Windows 10 Privacy Settings bug lets users change admin options The Microsoft June 2020 Patch Tuesday consisted of 129 security fixes for critical and important vulnerabilities. Of these, an “Important” and equally ironic vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-1296, concerns privilege escalation in the Windows Diagnostics & Feedback settings app: the annoying privacy setting screen is shown to users when setting up