McMenamins Data Breach Affects 12 Years of Employee Info
The Pacific Northwest hospitality stalwart is also still operationally crippled by a Dec. 12 ransomware attack.
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2021 Wants Another Chance (A Lighter-Side Year in Review)
The year wasn’t ALL bad news. These sometimes cringe-worthy/sometimes laughable cybersecurity and other technology stories offer schadenfreude and WTF opportunities, and some giggles.
Read MoreGlobal Cyberattacks from Nation-State Actors Posing Greater Threats
Casey Ellis, CTO at Bugcrowd, outlines how international relations have deteriorated into a new sort of Cold War, with espionage playing out in the cyber-domain.
Read MoreThe 5 Most-Wanted Threatpost Stories of 2021
A look back at what was hot with readers in this second year of the pandemic.
Read MoreHalf-Billion Compromised Credentials Lurking on Open Cloud Server
A quarter-billion of those passwords were not seen in previous breaches that have been added to Have I Been Pwned.
Read MoreKronos Ransomware Outage Drives Widespread Payroll Chaos
Kronos, the workforce-management provider, said a weeks-long outage of its cloud services is in the offing, just in time to hamstring end-of-year HR activities like bonuses and vacation tracking.
Read More‘Karakurt’ Extortion Threat Emerges, But Says No to Ransomware
The threat group, first identified in June, focuses solely on data exfiltration and subsequent extortion, and has already targeted 40 victims since September.
Read MoreCrypto-Exchange BitMart to Pay Users for $200M Theft
BitMart confirmed it had been drained of ~$150 million in cryptocurrency assets, but a blockchain security firm said it’s closer to $200 million.
Read MoreAre You Guilty of These 8 Network-Security Bad Practices?
Tony Lauro, director of Security Technology & Strategy at Akamai, discusses VPNs, RDP, flat networks, BYOD and other network-security bugbears.
Read MoreWhat Are Your Top Cloud Security Challenges? Threatpost Poll
We want to know what your biggest cloud security concerns and challenges are, and how your company is dealing with them. Weigh in with our exclusive poll!
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