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Leaked information related to a VPN device manufactured by Fortinet of the United States posted to a site used by hackers (Tatsuya Sudo)
People working from home due to the novel coronavirus pandemic may want to think twice about consulting the National Police Agency about computer security.
The agency failed to stop hackers from breaking into one of its personal computers 46 times between August 2019 and mid-November this year, red-faced officials announced on Nov. 27.
“It s extremely embarrassing that the NPA was successfully attacked when it should have a computer security system that is unbreachable,” a high-ranking NPA official said.
The breach revolved around the virtual private network (VPN) the agency provides to outside companies that it has dealings with. VPN devices have been in wide use by those working from home because they are used to connect to company computer networks.
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In brief In an 8-K filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, SolarWinds has given more details on exactly how it learned its servers were spewing out malware.
The notice [PDF] says that FireEye notified the network management biz s CEO (who had only been on the job for three days) of a serious security issue on 12 December. But by then the SUNBURST malware had already spread to around 18,000 customers. The vulnerability has only been identified in updates to the Orion Platform products delivered between March and June 2020, but our investigations are still ongoing, the filing said.
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When diplomats gathered at African Union headquarters earlier this year to prepare for its annual leaders’ summit, employees made a disturbing discovery.
Someone was stealing footage from their security cameras.
Acting on a tip from Japanese cyber researchers, AU technology staffers discovered a group of suspected Chinese hackers rigged a cluster of servers in the basement of an administrative annex to siphon surveillance videos from the AU campus in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital.
The security breach was carried out by a Chinese hacking group nicknamed “Bronze President,” according to a five-page internal memo reviewed by Reuters. It said the affected cameras covered “AU offices, parking areas, corridors, and meeting rooms.”