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Securonix Named a Leader for Sixth Consecutive Time in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Information and Event Management

  • Securonix
  • Published date: 2025-10-15 22:00:00

Securonix continues to demonstrate relentless focus on innovation, including Gen AI-powered SOC agents that drive efficiency and efficacy across......

Securonix continues to demonstrate relentless focus on innovation, including Gen AI-powered SOC agents that drive efficiency and efficacy across security operations. Plano, Texas. 16th of October 20… [+6541 chars]

U.S. man going to prison over PowerSchool data breach that included Canadian student info | Globalnews.ca

  • The Canadian Press
  • Published date: 2025-10-15 21:36:19

Court documents say a company targeted by the man received a ransom demand for $2.85 million worth of bitcoin or else the personal info of students and teachers would be leaked.

An American man was sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison after pleading guilty to cyber extortion in the mass data breach of a student information system used across Canada. Court documents sho… [+2055 chars]

Lynch Carpenter Investigates Claims in Pacific Seafood Data Breach

  • Lynch Carpenter
  • Published date: 2025-10-15 21:26:00

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 15, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pacific Seafood, aka Dulcich, Inc. (“Pacific Seafood”), an Oregon seafood wholesale distributor,1 recently announced a cybersecurity incident , which impacted the personal information of over forty thousand indiv…

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 15, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pacific Seafood, aka Dulcich, Inc. (Pacific Seafood), an Oregon seafood wholesale distributor,1 recently announced a cybersecurity incident , which impa… [+1365 chars]

Is Pete Hegseth Safe After Shock Plane Emergency Landing? Real Reason the Secretary of War Was Forced Down in UK

  • Jaja Agpalo
  • Published date: 2025-10-15 21:13:21

A routine flight turns into a mid-air nightmare for Pete Hegseth after a cracked windshield forces a terrifying emergency landing.

A routine transatlantic flight carrying U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth transformed into a high-stakes drama on Wednesday when the aircraft was forced to execute an emergency landing in the United… [+3107 chars]

Man who pleaded guilty to hacking PowerSchool sentenced

  • Cox Media Group National Content Desk
  • Published date: 2025-10-15 21:00:23

The man who hacked into an education software platform has been sentenced for his crime.

The man who hacked into an education software platform has been sentenced for his crime. Matthew Lane had pleaded guilty in June to hacking PowerSchool and taking the data, which belonged to million… [+1177 chars]

Capita to pay £14 million for data breach impacting 6.6 million people

  • Bill Toulas
  • Published date: 2025-10-15 20:53:05

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) in the UK has fined Capita, a provider of data-driven business process services, £14 million ($18.7 million) for a data breach incident in 2023 that exposed the personal information of 6.6 million people. [...]

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the UK has fined Capita, a provider of data-driven business process services, £14 million ($18.7 million) for a data breach incident in 2023 that expose… [+3336 chars]

You could get up to $7,500 from AT&T's $177 million data breach settlement – here's how to claim it

  • [email protected] (Monica J. White) , Monica J. White
  • Published date: 2025-10-15 20:00:00

AT&T will pay $177 million to settle two major data breaches, but there's not much time left to claim your share. Here’s how to check if you’re eligible to claim up to $7,500.

<ul><li>AT&amp;T is set to pay out a whopping $177 million to settle lawsuits over two major data breaches</li><li>The breaches were disclosed in 2024, but they took place in 2019 and 2024</li><li>Cl… [+4676 chars]

Qilin Ransomware announced new victims

  • Pierluigi Paganini
  • Published date: 2025-10-15 19:42:12

Resecurity’s new report details how the Qilin RaaS group relies on global bulletproof hosting networks to support its extortion operations. The following new report by Resecurity will explore the Qilin ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation’s reliance on bu…

Qilin Ransomware announced new victims The following new report by Resecurity will explore the Qilin ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operations reliance on bullet-proof-hosting (BPH) infrastructures,… [+4464 chars]

PowerSchool hacker gets sentenced to four years in prison

  • Sergiu Gatlan
  • Published date: 2025-10-15 19:41:51

19-year-old college student Matthew D. Lane, from Worcester, Massachusetts, was sentenced to 4 years in prison for orchestrating a cyberattack on PowerSchool in December 2024 that resulted in a massive data breach. [...]

19-year-old college student Matthew D. Lane, from Worcester, Massachusetts, was sentenced to 4 years in prison for orchestrating a cyberattack on PowerSchool in December 2024 that resulted in a massi… [+2603 chars]

Man who pleaded guilty to hacking PowerSchool sentenced

  • Cox Media Group National Content Desk
  • Published date: 2025-10-15 18:33:37

The man who hacked into an education software platform has been sentenced for his crime.

The man who hacked into an education software platform has been sentenced for his crime. Matthew Lane had pleaded guilty in June to hacking PowerSchool and taking the data, which belonged to million… [+1177 chars]

ED 26-01: Mitigate Vulnerabilities in F5 Devices

  • cisa.gov
  • Published date: 2025-10-15 18:22:16

of title 44, U.S. Code, authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security, in response to a known or reasonably suspected information security threat, vulnerability, or incident that represents a substantial threat to the information security of an agency, to “is…

of title 44, U.S. Code, authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security, in response to a known or reasonably suspected information security threat, vulnerability, or incident that represents a substan… [+149 chars]

Mastercard brings multi-sector cyber defense exercise to Europe

  • Editorial Team
  • Published date: 2025-10-15 18:17:00

Cross-sector teams from BT Group, Deutsche Bank, ING, Proximus and Santander join Mastercard’s European Cyber Resilience Centre in Belgium to test evolving cyber threats in real time.

Cross-sector teams from BT Group, Deutsche Bank, ING, Proximus and Santander join Mastercards European Cyber Resilience Centre in Belgium to test evolving cyber threats in real time.Today, Mastercard… [+6294 chars]

Akamai’s CIO pilots AI, but isn’t often sold on full adoption, due to worries about costs and technology maturity

  • John Kell
  • Published date: 2025-10-15 17:23:35

Akamai Technologies CIO Kate Prouty says the company's workers have a voracious appetite for AI. But she isn't yet completely sold on the technology's promised benefits.

Kate Prouty, the chief information officer at Akamai Technologies, says workers at the cybersecurity and cloud computing company have developed a voracious appetite for artificial intelligence. They … [+9593 chars]

South Korea targets Cambodia’s scam industry after kidnappings, torture and a death

  • New York Times
  • Published date: 2025-10-15 17:08:51

With a growing crisis at hand, South Korea is proactively seeking to repatriate its citizens from Cambodia, where an alarming number have fallen prey to deceptive online scam operations. These illicit centers are siphoning off billions from unsuspecting victi…

South Korean officials said Wednesday that they were trying to bring back missing South Koreans from Cambodia, where hundreds of people have disappeared into online scam centers that steal billions o… [+5236 chars]

Canadian Tire says under 150,000 customers affected by data breach

  • Bradly Shankar
  • Published date: 2025-10-15 16:57:10

Canadian Tire has confirmed that the personal information of some customers was impacted in a data breach. The retailer notes that it discovered a vulnerability in one of its e-commerce databases on October 2. The database stores data of those with online acc…

Canadian Tire has confirmed that the personal information of some customers was impacted in a data breach. The retailer notes that it discovered a vulnerability in one of its e-commerce databases on… [+1265 chars]

Integris Health Agrees to $30 Million Settlement Over 2023 Data Breach

  • newsweek.com
  • Published date: 2025-10-15 16:19:53

The Oklahoma-based health system agreed to the settlement after a class action lawsuit accused Integris of negligence.

The Oklahoma-based health system agreed to the settlement after a class action lawsuit accused Integris of negligence. This story appeared on newsweek.com, 2025-10-15 16:11:06.

The importance of hardening customer support tools against cyberattacks

  • Raji Dani
  • Published date: 2025-10-15 16:00:00

As customer support tools become more connected and data-rich, they’re increasingly targeted by cyberattacks. Hardening these systems is no longer optional—it’s essential to protect customer trust, sensitive data, and business continuity. The post The importa…

The Deputy CISO blog series is where Microsoft  Deputy Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) share their thoughts on what is most important in their respective domains. In this series, you will… [+9482 chars]

F5 data breach: “Nation-state attackers” stole BIG-IP source code, vulnerability info

  • Zeljka Zorz
  • Published date: 2025-10-15 15:36:15

US tech company F5 has suffered a breach, and the attackers made off with source code of and vulnerability information related to its BIG-IP family of networking and security products, the company confirmed today. BIG-IP vulnerabilities are often leveraged by…

US tech company F5 has suffered a breach, and the attackers made off with source code of and vulnerability information related to its BIG-IP family of networking and security products, the company co… [+5254 chars]

Clothing giant MANGO discloses data breach exposing customer info

  • Bill Toulas
  • Published date: 2025-10-15 15:18:28

Spanish fashion retailer MANGO is sending notices of a data breach to its customers, warning that its marketing vendor suffered a compromise exposing personal data. [...]

Spanish fashion retailer MANGO is sending notices of a data breach to its customers, warning that its marketing vendor suffered a compromise exposing personal data. Founded in 1984 in Barcelona, MAN… [+2367 chars]

Canadian Tire Confirms Major Data Breach: 150,000 Customers Affected

  • Gary Ng
  • Published date: 2025-10-15 14:57:27

Canadian Tire has disclosed a data breach affecting its online shopping database, exposing customer information tied to Canadian Tire, SportChek, Mark’s/L’Équipeur, and Party City accounts. The company said on October 14 the breach was detected on October 2, …

Canadian Tire has disclosed a data breach affecting its online shopping database, exposing customer information tied to Canadian Tire, SportChek, Marks/LÉquipeur, and Party City accounts. The compan… [+1630 chars]

As Pokemon Winds and Waves rumors swirl after huge leak, ex-Nintendo marketing lead says "Nintendo and Pokemon really need to rethink their approach to information security"

The purported Pokemon leak may have revealed several years of games

On the heels of a massive leak of Pokemon-related projects and announcements purportedly stretching years into the future and touching on an alleged Pokemon Winds and Waves game duo – all of which is… [+3198 chars]

Jordan's Discord fans flock to VPNs to defeat sudden outage

  • Mark Gill
  • Published date: 2025-10-15 14:48:28

Jordan’s Discord outage triggers a 250% surge in Proton VPN Free signups as users seek ways to safely bypass the block.

<ul><li>Registrations for Proton VPN Free in Jordan spiked after Discord went offline</li><li>Government-imposed bans are increasingly resulting in VPN signup surges</li><li>Jordan’s Discord users ha… [+3517 chars]

Why more than half of AI projects could fail in 2026

  • Anthony Woodward
  • Published date: 2025-10-15 14:12:13

Explore the many risks of failure for large AI projects. Why does AI challenge organizations?

In 2025, to borrow a phrase: the AI revolution is already here; it's just not evenly distributed. While individuals are seeing productivity gains from LLMs or newer agentic systems, larger projects s… [+7963 chars]

Man behind PowerSchool breach that exposed Canadian students' data sentenced to 4 years in prison

  • None
  • Published date: 2025-10-15 13:55:39

The breach at PowerSchool in December 2024 exposed sensitive data of millions of students and teachers in Canada and the U.S., which hacker Matthew Lane then used to demand a ransom of $2.85 million worth of bitcoin from the company.

A Massachusetts man who breached the network of education software provider PowerSchool to steal data belonging to millions of students and teachers and extort the company was sentenced on Tuesday to… [+2891 chars]