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Welcome to the October 2021 issue of your Computing Security Newsletter.
As reported by Digital Trends, Acer has confirmed that its servers were beached by a group of hackers called ‘Desorden’. The hackers stole more than 60 gigabytes worth of data containing sensitive information about millions of Acer’s customers. The compromised information includes the names, addresses, and phone numbers of several million clients, but also restricted corporate financial data. The attack joins the stack of breaches that shows no sign of reducing, no matter how many times organisations are asked – even entreated – to protect their sensitive and valuable data.
Says Jake Moore, cybersecurity specialist at ESET:“Compromises such as this may sound trivial among so many daily data leaks, but it will be far from trivial for Acer, who will now be fearful of the impact from the leak. This data includes very personal customer information which can benefit hackers on the look-out to collate stronger target profiles,in order to strike against potential victims.”
Moore recommends that those at risk should strengthen their accounts with the implementation of multi-factor authentication and be on guard to phishing attacks even more than normal. In whichever way businesses may react to this latest advice, it’s clear that far too many are either doing too little to stay secure or perhaps doing the wrong things and remaining at risk. A thorough review of every organisation’s defence system is the only way forward, if they are to avoid being the ‘next Acer’ – or indeed one of the many new victims that will have fallen foul of an attack by the time you read this newsletter.
With best wishes…
Brian Wall, Editor
Computing Security
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