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The pay and benefits details of nearly 2,000 staff members of DAA, which operates Ireland's Dublin airport, were compromised due to a recent cyberattack on professional service provider Aon, according to a report in the Sunday Times.DAA can confirm that as a result of a recent cyberattack on Aon, a third-party provider, data relating to some employees' pay and benefits were compromised, the report quoted DAA's spokesperson as saying. DAA was one of many global companies affected last month by the attack on the…

A new report by Bitdefender does not exactly bring good news. Bitdefender’s anomaly detection tech spotted tens of thousands of compromised Android apps out there. Tens of thousands compromised apps were spotted on Android This tech is included in Bitdefender Mobile Security, and it uncovered a hidden malware campaign that was running undetected on mobile devices all around the world. This has been going on for over six months. This malware campaign is designed to “aggressively push adware to Android devices with the…

Josh Sawyer has quite the resume as an RPG game developer, contributing design to notable games like Fallout: New Vegas, Alpha Protocol, and the recent Pentiment. In a roundtable with PC Gamer, Sawyer said that the two Pillars of Eternity games were the "most compromised" projects that he worked on, and said that happened for a variety of factors, including fan expectations.During the roundtable, Sawyer said that he's been playing D&D and other tabletop role-playing games since 1985, which gave him a…

Last Updated: April 06, 2023, 11:05 ISTMaruti Suzuki Alto K10 (Photo: Global NCAP)The popular hatchback has bagged only 2 stars for adult crash rating and 0 stars for child occupant protection in the tests carried out by Global NCAPGlobal NCAP has conducted crash tests on the new Maruti Suzuki Alto K10 and the results are quite underwhelming. The popular hatchback has bagged only 2 stars for adult crash rating and 0 stars for child occupant protection. Maruti Suzuki made improvements in the restraint systems of its cars…

The findings could improve the early detection of depression.A recent study has discovered that changes in our brain patterns, which shape our trust behavior, can serve as an early warning sign for depression, even before symptoms become noticeable. Just like how unusual behavior from our devices can indicate the presence of malware, changes in our trust behavior can alert us to the possibility of depression sneaking up on us.Brain scans showed a correlation between shrunken gray matter volumes in the “social brain”…

Data belonging to customers of The Good Guys have been compromised in a security breach involving the Australian retailer's former third-party supplier, My Rewards. Formerly known as Pegasus Group Australia, My Rewards also confirmed the breach in a statement Thursday, revealing that preliminary investigations pointed to an "unauthorised access" to its systems in August 2021, which led to the data compromise. This meant that personally identifiable information, including names, email addresses, and phone numbers, likely…

Personal information including addresses and salary information on 140 current and former Australian staff of multinational media outlet The Guardian may have been accessed by hackers in the crippling cyberattack that hit the company late last year.Its local leaders had told employees in a mid-January internal email that “we don’t currently believe there is a risk to Australian staff” but cautioned that its technical teams were continuing to investigate the breach.The Guardian initially believed Australian staff details…

Google has notified customers of its Fi mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) service that hackers were able to access some of their information, according to TechCrunch. The tech giant said the bad actors infiltrated a third-party system used for customer support at Fi's primary network provider. While Google didn't name the provider outright, Fi relies on US Cellular and T-Mobile for connectivity. If you'll recall, the latter admitted in mid-January that hackers had been taking data from its systems since November last…

Grand Theft Auto Online is currently undergoing a security breach caused by exploits affecting the PC version. Rockstar-Games-focused account TezFunz2 tweeted on Friday that the exploits can allow cheaters to remotely add, remove, and modify other peoples' stats. This, potentially, could also lead to accounts being permanently corrupted, which can cause a ban or deleted profiles.In a Reddit thread, which has become quite popular during the past few days, user PapaXan asks people to help in mass reporting…

T-Mobile has admitted that hackers were able to steal the information of around 37 million postpaid and prepaid customers in another major data breach. The carrier said in a regulatory filing that it discovered the issue on January 5th, but that it believes the bad actors had been taking data from the company since November 25th. In a post announcing the breach, T-Mobile revealed that the hackers used an API to steal customer information.  While the company was able to contain the issue 24 hours after discovering the…