CloneCD 1.0.0.10 is out. Thanks to all who mailed this to us, but I waited to post it on the new site
New features:
– When error reporting was disabled, reading hangs.
– Added option to disable bad sector scanner
– Added option to disable eject of media
– Removed warning message, if a drive delivers uspicious sub channel data, as it sometimes triggered a “false alarm”
News
Forward Air Discloses Ransomware Data Breach Months After Incident
Freight shipping giant Forward Air Corp. finally admits to a ransomware data breach that hit the company back in December of 2020. Almost a year later, the trucking company disclosed that the attack exposed and compromised former employees’ information.
According to Freight Waves, Forward Air Corp. reportedly sent letters to...
Artificial Intelligence Completes Beethoven’s Tenth Symphony
Ludwig von Beethoven’s previously unfinished work on his Tenth Symphony has finally been completed with the help of artificial intelligence. Following this, the work will premiere in Bonn, Germany, on October 9, 2021.
Beethoven’s death in 1827 left his Tenth Symphony incomplete due to his deteriorating condition. While the composer...
Ring Launches New Virtual Security Guard Service And Package Alert System
Ring unveiled its most recent security service called Virtual Security Guard and a smart alert system called Package Alert. This year, Amazon's annual devices and services showcase include Ring, and it features several innovative updates.
Virtual Security Guard is a paid subscription product that allows professional agents in the monitoring...
Simon Eye and USV Optical Hit By Data Breach
A large number of Americans' health data was compromised in different data breaches at two eye-care providers in the U.S, namely Simon Eye and USV Optical.
On September 14, Simon Eye Management notified the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services of a cybersecurity...
New Cooperative Hit by Ransomware Attack
Major agriculture group New Cooperative was hit by a ransomware attack on or around Friday, September 17, 2021, leading the group to take its systems down. The American cooperative reportedly suffered the attack due to ransomware gang BlackMatter, a Russian-linked hacking group.
New Cooperative is an agricultural group based in...
Giant Umbrella Contractors Face Pay Delays After a Suspected Data Breach
After a suspected data breach forced Giant Umbrella to “proactively” stop its entire operations last week, the company has tried to reassure its contractors that they will be paid on time. After “suspicious activity” was identified on its network two days prior, the business issued a statement on Friday,...
UC San Diego Health Charged Over 500,000 Patient Data Leak
There is a lawsuit pending against UC San Diego Health over a cyber attack that happened last winter and could have compromised the confidential info of up to 500,000 UC San Diego Health patients, employees, and others.
In a federal court in San Diego, lawyers for an El Cajon cancer...
Yahoo Develops New Calendar App Day with Sunrise Co-Founder
Day, a standalone calendar app from Yahoo, is currently under development. According to sources, the web services provider has acquired the expertise of Jeremy Le Van for designing the new calendar app.
Le Van is one of the co-founders of another calendar app called Sunrise. Sunrise is known to be...
A Colombian Property Company Leaks About 100,000 Client Data
According to cybersecurity firm WizCase, a terabyte of data containing 5.5 million records has been left exposed, exposing the personal information of more than 100,000 clients of a Colombian property company.
Ata Hakçl and his team discovered the vulnerability in a database maintained by Coninsa Ramon, a firm that specializes...
African Bank Warns of Personal Data Leak
According to the banking institution, Debt-IN, being one of African Bank's certified qualified debt collection partners, was targeted by hackers in April 2021.
While dedicated security experts ruled at the moment that the cyberattack didn't take place in a data breach, Debt-IN now understands that the private information of some...
UK to Double Down on AI Strategy in the Next 10 Years
The United Kingdom revealed its 10-year plan on boosting AI strategy in the country. The government announced its plan on Wednesday, September 22, 2021, designating the project to make the country an artificial intelligence superpower as the “National Artificial Intelligence Strategy.”
The National Artificial Intelligence Strategy aims to help the...
UK Data Leak Endangers Afghan Interpreters
An email blunder by the British Ministry of Defense (MoD) resulted in the compromising of email addresses used by over 250 Afghan interpreters who have been working with the British military and officials, reported Al Jazeera.
The leak was caused by the MoD which sent out an email containing the...
