Hightower Holding Data Breach Impacts 130,000
2026-03-27T01:24:08Z•f12799e9dd9a8a814a7ac09b4b8789f0812f4d3e8d4ca74c4c11ee7c5108d406
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What happened
Aggregated SecurityWeek headlines: Hightower Holding reports a data breach impacting ~130,000 individuals with names, Social Security numbers and driver’s license numbers exposed. BIND maintainers released patches for high-severity DNS resolver flaws that can trigger out-of-memory conditions and memory leaks via specially crafted domains. Researchers uncovered Chinese state-sponsored actors deploying kernel implants and passive backdoors deep in telecom backbone infrastructure for long-term espionage. Cisco issued patches for multiple high- and medium-severity IOS vulnerabilities (potential Do
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- 2026-03-27T01:24:08Z
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