What is GDPR?

Compliance, Online Security

What is GDPR? A lot of you may have heard the term lately GDPR, and being an acronym simply tuned out, and continued with the more important things at work. For those that may have been inquisitive and wanted to know what it stands for, you would have found out the acronym for GDPR is General Data Protection Regulation. Okay…” that’s interesting” …perhaps you thought…and upon further reading you would have discovered that it’s a privacy law being enforced by the EU and the UK on May 25th, 2018. At this point, my guess most of you probably moved on after finding this little titbit “boring”; thinking that it won’t…

Bank’s 9,500+ Systems BRICKED to Hide Stealing 10 Million Dollars Via SWIFT

Cybercrime, Online Security, Phishing Scam, Ransomeware, Security Awareness Training

Banco De Chile (BDC)—that country’s largest financial institution— was victim to a cyber-attack that bricked a shocking 9,000 workstations and 500 servers. After the attackers bricked the devices they began covertly hide illegal transactions on the SWIFT network worth approximately $10million dollars and funneled off to international accounts in Hong Kong. Eduardo Ebensperger, BDC’s general manager on Sunday, told Chilean media outlet Pulso that the late-May attack allowed the attackers to complete four separate fraudulent transactions before the cyber-heist was discovered. This wiper-attack caused massive downtime caused will result in damaged more than the $10 million that was stolen. The bank had to halt all of its operations at its…

Avast Software Clear of Piriform’s cCleaner hacking

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PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Melbourne, Australia – September 21, 2017 On September 18,  2017, it was reported in an article titled, “Hackers compromised free CCleaner software, Avast’s Piriform says”  by Reuters; San Francisco, that hackers infiltrated the British company Piriform Ltd’s free software known as cCleaner. cCleaner is a utility software tool produced by London’s Piriform Ltd, which was acquired by Avast Software in July 2017; Avast Software being one of the world’s largest computer security vendors. At the time of this acquisition Piriform reported that it had 130 million users using its product. The reported hack apparently affected approximately 2 million users with a version of cCleaner,…