The Equifax Breach

By pwsadmin | 31 May 2024 |

By Tanzeer Hossain In September 2017, Equifax, one of the largest credit reporting agencies, fell prey to one of the best documented data breaches of late. This breach involved compromising the critical information of approximately 147 million individuals, the vast majority being Americans, with a smaller number in the United Kingdom and Canada. This made…

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The SolarWinds Cyber Attack

By pwsadmin | 9 May 2024

by Tanzeer Hossain In December of 2020, the world witnessed one of the most sophisticated cyberattacks in history: the SolarWinds supply chain attack. This affected the systems of many substantial organisations, including US Government agencies, private companies and key infrastructure providers. The main objective of this attack was the compromise of software updates distributed by…

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