threat updates
UK
An issue regarding the failure of
a Teesside council’s IT systems
is believed to be the result of a
suspected cyberattack.
Redcar and Cleveland Council has
said that there is no evidence to
suggest personal data had been lost
and that it was still able to receive
and answer limited calls and emails,
prioritising urgent messages.
Matt Rahman, COO for IOActive,
believes organisations are far too
reactive as they don’t look at their
own environments and infrastructure
to understand where threats may
naturally occur. He said it is therefore
right that people are calling for a
serious review of the council’s IT
systems after such a long outage.
Rahman believes organisations need
to look at their infrastructure from a
hacker’s perspective.
GLOBAL
Cosmetics giant, Estée Lauder, has come under scrutiny as its
database exposed around 440 million data records, according
to researchers.
The records were said to have contained email addresses but
didn’t include any sensitive employee information.
The company said that it was made aware that a limited
number of non-consumer email addresses from an education
platform were temporarily accessible via the Internet. This
education platform was not consumer-facing, nor did it
contain consumer data. The company found no evidence of
unauthorised use of the temporarily accessible data.
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