The Information Highway

The Information Highway

Bill Toulas is a technology writer and infosec news reporter with over a decade of experience working on various online publications. An open source advocate and Linux enthusiast, is currently finding pleasure in following hacks, malware campaigns, and data breach incidents, as well as by exploring the intricate ways through which tech is swiftly transforming our lives.

CISA warns of actively exploited bugs in Chrome and Excel parsing library

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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added two vulnerabilities to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, a recently patched flaw in Google Chrome and a bug affecting an open-source Perl library for reading information in an Excel file called Spreadsheet::ParseExcel.


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Online museum collections down after cyberattack on service provider

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Museum software solutions provider Gallery Systems has disclosed that its ongoing IT outages were caused by a ransomware attack last week.


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Xerox says subsidiary XBS U.S. breached after ransomware gang leaks data

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The U.S. division of Xerox Business Solutions (XBS) has been compromised by hackers with a limited amount of personal information possibly exposed, according to a statement by the parent company, Xerox Corporation.


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Eagers Automotive halts trading in response to cyberattack

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Eagers Automotive has announced it suffered a cyberattack and was forced to halt trading on the stock exchange as it evaluates the impact of the incident. 

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EasyPark discloses data breach that may impact millions of users

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Parking app developer EasyPark has published a notice on its website warning of a data breach it discovered on December 10, 2023, which impacts an unknown number of its millions of users. 

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Top Breaches Cost ($) of 2024

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Source: IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024