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Bloomberg There’s Plenty Worrying Investors as Europe’s Stocks Hit Records (Bloomberg) — European equities are at records, vaccination rates are picking up and central banks are funneling trillions of dollars into the economy. But there is still plenty that could go wrong, with a resurgent coronavirus outbreak, another missed summer holiday season and elections keeping investors up at night.While the pandemic turned 2020 into a stock market roller-coaster, 2021 has begun on a more… Source link

Yandex (NASDAQ and MOEX: YNDX), one of Europe’s largest internet companies and the leading search and ride-hailing provider in Russia, today announced that a data breach had been discovered during routine screening by Yandex’s security team. An internal investigation revealed that an employee had been providing unauthorized access to users’ mailboxes for personal gain. The employee was one of three system administrators with the necessary access rights to… Source link

(Bloomberg) — A group of hackers say they breached a massive trove of security-camera data collected by Silicon Valley startup Verkada Inc., gaining access to live feeds of 150,000 surveillance cameras inside hospitals, companies, police departments, prisons and schools. Companies whose footage was exposed include carmaker Tesla Inc. and software provider Cloudflare Inc. In addition, hackers were able to view video from inside women’s health clinics, psychiatric hospitals and the offices… Source link

InvestorPlace 10 Dividend Stocks Increasing Their Payouts There are two types of dividend stocks: those that increase their annual dividend payments year after year, often referred to as Dividend Aristocrats, and those that grow their annual dividends by double-digit percentages every year. In early January, Rob Carrick, one of Canada’s best personal finance columnists, wrote an article about dividend stocks that doubled their payouts over the past 10 years. With an assist from Tom Connolly… Source link

Russian internet giant Yandex has revealed that thousands of its customers had their accounts accessed due to a malicious insider working at the firm. The Moscow-headquartered multi-national provides search, email, e-commerce and even ride-hailing services, and claims to have tens of millions of unique monthly users. However, on Friday it noted in a brief statement that an employee had been selling access to users’ email accounts for personal gain. “The employee was one of three… Source link

Breach Occurred After System Admin Granted Unauthorized Access Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • February 13, 2021     Insiders have elevated access to an organization’s data Russian-Dutch multinational… Source link

Russian internet and search company Yandex announced today that one of its system administrators had enabled unauthorized access to thousands of user mailboxes. The company discovered the breach internally, during a routine check of its security team. The investigation revealed that the employee’s actions led to the compromise of almost 5,000 Yandex email inboxes. Sysadmin’s side business The employee was a system administrator who had access rights to provide technical support for… Source link

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik – 12th February, 2021) Russian internet giant Yandex said on Friday it had detected a data breach of 4,887 mailboxes orchestrated by the company‘s employee for personal gain. “Yandex… today announced that a data breach had been discovered during routine screening by Yandex’s security team. An internal investigation revealed that an employee had been providing unauthorized access to users’ mailboxes for personal gain,” the company said in a press… Source link

North Korean hackers are going after the cybersecurity research community. getty North Korean hackers have been masquerading as cybersecurity bloggers in order to target researchers in the field, according to Google. They’re doing so by exploiting mysterious weaknesses in computers running the most up-to-date versions of  Microsoft Windows and Google Chrome, the tech giant warned Monday. Adam Weidemann, a researcher at Google’s Threat Analysis Group, said… Source link

Westend61/Getty Images Hackers who breached federal agency networks through software made by a company called SolarWinds appear to have conducted a test run of their broad espionage campaign last year, according to sources with knowledge of the operation. The hackers distributed malicious files from the SolarWinds network in October 2019, five months before previously reported files were sent to victims through the company’s software update servers. The October files, distributed to… Source link