Author: HackWatchit

Healthcare Services Group is notifying over 624,000 individuals that their personal information was stolen in a data breach. The incident, the organization says, was identified on October 7, 2024, and involved unauthorized access to its systems between September 27, 2024, and October 3, 2024. During the timeframe, the hackers copied certain files from the compromised machines, including files containing personal information. The compromised data, Healthcare Services Group says, includes names, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, state identification numbers, financial account details, and credentials. The company notified the Maine Attorney General’s Office that 624,496 people were impacted by the data…

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Agriculture is a connected, software-driven industry where cybersecurity is just as essential as tractors and harvesters. From embedded hardware in smart fleets to defending against advanced persistent threats, protecting the agricultural supply chain requires a layered, collaborative approach. In this Help Net Security interview, Carl Kubalsky, Director and Deputy CISO at John Deere discusses the most pressing security challenges in agriculture, how his team is working with partners and ethical hackers to stay ahead of adversaries, and what priorities will define the next 12-18 months. What are the most common security gaps you see in smart agriculture fleets, especially in…

Farmers Insurance discloses a data breach impacting 1.1M customers Pierluigi Paganini August 26, 2025 Farmers Insurance suffered a breach tied to Salesforce attacks, exposing data of 1.1M customers across its nationwide insurance network. Farmers Insurance disclosed a data breach affecting 1,071,172 customers, linked to the recent wave of Salesforce attacks, as per Bleeping Computer. The company is an American insurer group of vehicles, homes and small businesses and also provides other insurance and financial services products. Farmers Insurance has more than 48,000 exclusive and independent agents and approximately 21,000 employees. The security breach occurred on May 29, 2025 and impacted…

Three new vulnerabilities affecting (Citrix) NetScaler application delivery controller (ADC) and Gateway devices have been made public, one of which (CVE-2025-7775) has been targeted in zero-day attacks. “Exploits of CVE-2025-7775 on unmitigated appliances have been observed,” Citrix has confirmed, and released security updates that fix the flaws. The vulnerabilities The three fixed vulnerabilities are: CVE-2025-7775: A memory overflow vulnerability leading to pre-auth remote code execution (RCE) and/or denial of service (DoS) CVE-2025-7776: A memory overflow vulnerability leading to unpredictable or erroneous behavior and DoS CVE-2025-8424: An vulnerability stemming from improper access control on the NetScaler management interface All three vulnerabilities…

What Financially Motivated Criminals Have in Common Heists in the digital world may seem fundamentally different from heists in the physical world, but I see a common tie — financially motivated criminals of all types often use social engineering and intensive reconnaissance to achieve their goals. In February 2023, the “heist of the century” occurred when more than $100 million worth of diamonds, gold, silver and other jewelry were stolen from the Antwerp Diamond Centre in Belgium by five criminals. This heist involved significant time spent on reconnaissance and social engineering by the mastermind of the operation, Leonardo Notarbartolo. He…

Google is introducing a new defense for Android called ‘Developer Verification’ to block malware installations from sideloaded apps sourced from outside the official Google Play app store. For apps on Google Play, there was already a requirement for publishers to provide a D-U-N-S (Data Universal Numbering System) number, introduced on August 31, 2023. Google says this has had a notable effect in reducing malware on the platform. However, the system didn’t apply to the vast developer ecosystem outside the app store. “We’ve seen how malicious actors hide behind anonymity to harm users by impersonating developers and using their brand image to create convincing fake…

LLMs being released almost weekly. Some recent releases we’ve had are Qwen3 coing models, GPT 5, Grok 4, all of which claim the top of some benchmarks. Common benchmarks are Humanities Last Exam, SWE-bench, IMO, and so on. However, these benchmarks have an inherent flaw: The companies releasing new front-end models are strongly incentivized to optimize their models for such performance on these benchmarks. The reason is that these well-known benchmarks are essentially what set the standard for what’s considered a new breakthrough LLM. Luckily, there exists a simple solution to this problem: Develop your own internal benchmarks, and test…

In episode 65 of The AI Fix, a pigeon gives a PowerPoint presentation, Mark plays Graham a song about the Transformer architecture, a robot dog delivers parcels, some robots fall over at the World Humanoid Robot Games, and Graham takes credit for one of computing’s greatest insights. Plus, Graham explains why Microsoft doesn’t want you to use Excel’s new Copilot feature in any spreadsheet calculations that are meant to be useful, accurate, reproducible, or relied on for anything important, and Mark discovers what happened when researchers gave 500 AIs their own social network. All this and much more is discussed…