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 PressReader Suffers Cyber-Attack. A cyber-attack on the world’s largest digital newspaper and magazine distributor left readers around the world unable to access more than 7000 publications. PressReader, headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, and has offices in Dublin, Ireland and Manila, Philippines, began experiencing a network outage affecting its Branded Editions website and apps and its PressReader site on Thursday.  The global outage impacted all PressReader’s local, regional and international newspapers and magazines online on mobile devices and in print. Users in countries including Australia, Canada, the UK and the US were blocked from accessing titles, including The Guardian, Vogue, Forbes, and the New York Times. By Friday night, the company’s security teams had classified the outage as “a cybersecurity incident.”  In a statement released March 4, PressReader said it was working to restore services and make content available to users. The company added that its i...

 Canada Cops Arrests Teen Cyber-Attack Suspect. Police in Manitoba, Canada, have arrested an 18-year-old man on suspicion of carrying out cyber-attacks on victims across North America.  Dayne Parrott-Jones, of Brandon, was taken into custody on March 8 by members of the Brandon Police Service Crime Suppression Unit following an 11-month investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and police forces in America and Canada. The teen is suspected of carrying out distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks with a co-conspirator based in San Antonio, Texas. It is alleged that third parties paid the pair to perform the attacks.  Parrot-Jones' girlfriend, 24-year-old Rolanda Chaske, who shares his home on Pacific Avenue, was also arrested, but not in connection with the alleged cyber-crimes.  Sergeant Brian Partridge said: "In April of 2021, Brandon Police Service was contacted by the FBI in Los Angeles about a pair of co-conspirators that were conducting cybe...

Consistency in password resets helps block credential theft. Phishing attacks have become a massive problem for organizations of all sizes. According to Expert Insights’ recent study “almost 20% of all employees are likely to click on phishing email links and, of those, a staggering 67.5% go on to enter their credentials on a phishing website.” This type of credential theft can have far-reaching consequences ranging from data leakage to human-operated ransomware attacks. The most disturbing part of this is knowing that any user can potentially unleash a devastating attack on your organization with a single mouse click. Organizations must therefore take decisive action to prevent users from falling victim to phishing attacks. ✳️ Mail filtering is not enough Unfortunately, there is no one single solution that will effectively stop all phishing attacks. As such, organizations should practice defense in depth. Filtering inbound email and removing phishing messages before they make it into ...