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Stories of the year

🤷‍♀️ What now?: The undisputed best cybersecurity tool is YOU, yourself - use it. Always question anything that doesn’t seem right. Question especially when it sounds too good.

📰 Headline Highlights

• PRO-RUSSIA GROUP NONAME TARGETED THE WEBSITES OF ITALIAN AIRPORTS

• US soldier arrested after allegedly posting hacked Trump and Harris call logs

• Brain Cipher begins to leak stolen Rhode Island data

• Harley-Davidson Targeted by Cyber ​​Criminals: 888 Claims Data Breach

• Beijing-linked hackers penetrated Treasury systems

• Russia-linked cable-cutting tanker seized by Finland ‘was loaded with spying equipment’

• It's only a matter of time before LLMs jump start supply-chain attacks

• Volkswagen leak exposes private information of 800,000 EV owners, including location data

• Ascension cyberattack exposed medical data of 5.6M customers

In other news,  Apple to pay $95 million to settle Siri privacy lawsuit

MUST READ: What Security Lessons Did We Learn in 2024?

Happy 2025! We wish all our subscribers a healthy and safe new year. One good news to start this year off is that there isn’t too much news this week. We haven’t experienced this before.

HX Weekly has a new logo! We thought we’d emphasize the fact that it’s truly a weekly newsletter to remind all our readers and subscribers about being vigilant.

That seems like the theme for this week’s newsletter but it’s what we mainly do around here where it comes to cybersecurity. Be sure to read the stories of the year.

Inside Hexagon

Hexagon Center is not only growing, it’s developing. This week, we received the approval from the United States Postal Service to use the Nonprofit Standard Mail prices. And we are excited!

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Glossary/Legend:

• Malware - A software that is specifically designed to disrupt, damage, or gain unauthorized access to a computer system.

• Cyberattack - A malicious attempt to gain unauthorized access to a computer system, network, or device. The goal of a cyberattack is to disrupt or damage the target, or to steal data, intellectual property, or money.

• Ransomware - A type of malware that locks or encrypts a victim's files and demands a ransom payment to unlock and decrypt them. Ransomware can infect a variety of devices, including computers, smartphones, printers, and more.

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