☝️ TWA

Your smart home may be too smart

🤷‍♀️ What now?: Keep your vigilance including with things that may involve your smart devices. They are not immune.

Meanwhile … Google says hackers stole its customers’ data by breaching its Salesforce database

📰 Headline Highlights

• Legal aid cyber-attack has pushed sector towards collapse, say lawyers

• Luxembourg probes reported attack on Huawei tech that caused nationwide telecoms outage

• Hackers leak purported Aeroflot data as Russia denies breach

• Vietnamese Hackers Use PXA Stealer, Hit 4,000 IPs and Steal 200,000 Passwords Globally

• NORTHWEST RADIOLOGISTS DATA BREACH HITS 350,000 IN WASHINGTON

• PBS confirms data breach after employee info leaked on Discord servers

• Cisco discloses data breach impacting Cisco.com user accounts

• Cyberattack hits France’s third-largest mobile operator, millions of customers affected

• Dialysis company DaVita says more than 900,000 people affected by April ransomware attack

• Air France and KLM disclose data breaches impacting customers

In other news, Pandora Confirms Third-Party Data Breach

GOOD READ: Social engineering attacks surged this past year, Palo Alto Networks report finds

Hexagon Center was attacked several times this week and we were not surprised. We are glad that nothing was breached and all is well and normal in our system. We are still in business to help you stay safe in the virtual and IT world.

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Glossary/Legend:

• 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.

• Malware (short for malicious software) - refers to any intrusive software developed by cybercriminals (often called hackers) to steal data and damage or destroy computers and computer systems.

• 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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