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A recent data breach involving Booking.com has revealed how unauthorized access to customer reservation data can create significant security risks, even when payment information is not compromised. According to reports, attackers gained access to sensitive booking details, including customer names, contact information, and reservation data.
We are excited to introduce the latest upgrades to our Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system at HostedPCI. Designed to meet the evolving needs of our clients, our expanded IVR options now include the advanced IVR OmniFlow and SMS flow, tailored to enhance security and compliance for credit card transactions over the phone.
The Bank of Canada’s Retail Payment Activities Act (RPAA) introduces mandatory registration for certain payment service providers (PSPs), setting higher standards for security and compliance.
Park’N Fly, a prominent provider of off-airport parking services in Canada, recently announced a significant data breach affecting 1 million customers. The breach occurred after hackers obtained unauthorized access to Park’N Fly’s network through stolen VPN credentials between July 11 and July 13, 2024.
The extensive personal data of over 815 million individuals in India has purportedly been compromised and made available on the internet. Hackers have allegedly put up for sale a vast array of personally identifiable information (PII), encompassing details from Aadhaar identity cards, which are critical identity documents in India.
This past Friday, a critical vulnerability in the Apache Log4j library was reported, the severity of this vulnerability was scaled at a level 10 out of 10. In the case of malicious exploitation of this vulnerability, it would leave an easy and open gate for an attacker to take full control over the system.
A major and unexpected outage in Amazon’s cloud computing network resulted in significant disruption to many businesses and services on Tuesday, Dec 7th. This outage impacted a large variety of businesses ranging from airline reservations, auto dealerships, payment applications, and streaming services.
On Tuesday the OPP has announced that a government employee is one of the two people charged following an investigation into a security breach related to Ontario's COVID-19 immunization system.
The Toronto Transit Commission was recently a target of a very large cyber breach which led to service shut down as well as compromised employee data. The ransomware attack was discovered by their IT team through unusual network activity, at that time the effect of the attack seemed very minimal but quickly took a turn by midday the next day.
The University of Colorado has recently had to reach out to thousands of students to advise them of an unfortunate data breach that has compromised personal information. According to sources, the breach occurred through unpatched software associated with Atlassian Corporation Plc
Back in August of last year, India was the victim of a major data breach which resulted in the exposure of data for 35 million consumers, since then the Reserve Bank of India has updated its guidelines to mandate tokenization through Indian Merchants.
Every year the best hackers from all over China join a popular hacking event to showcase their best hacking capabilities. The event that goes by the name of Tianfu Cup, offers the opportunity for hackers to break into the latest devices and systems while using unique, never-seen methods.