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Why you should always offboard outgoing staff: A disgruntled ex-Disney employee targeted former colleagues with DDoS attacks and hacked its menu system to change peanut allergen information
A former Disney employee faces federal cyber crime charges after being accused of hacking into the entertainment giant’s menu system. The disgruntled ex-menu production manager, Michael Scheuer, was fired in June for alleged misconduct, but is now charged with attempting to mislabel menu items, hiding the fact they contained peanuts. “The threat actor manipulated the allergen information on menus by…
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Is a VMware exodus looming? Disgruntled customers are actively seeking alternative providers or exploring open source options in the wake of Broadcom’s acquisition
VMware customers are becoming increasingly frustrated with uncertainty and spiraling licensing costs, new research suggests, after its acquisition by IT giant Broadcom. Research from Civo found more than half (51.9%) of VMware customers were considering ditching services after Broadcom finalized its acquisition of the cloud computing and virtualization firm. After a series of drastic changes to its operating model including…
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Why you should always be wary of insider threats: A disgruntled employee at a US industrial firm deleted backups and locked IT admins out of workstations in a failed data extortion attempt
A disgruntled IT worker at a national industrial company in the US has been arrested after he launched an extortion campaign targeting his former employer in 2023. Daniel Rhyne was a core infrastructure engineer at an unnamed US-based industrial firm, and attempted to extort his company for $750,000 worth of Bitcoin. According to a press release issued by the US…
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