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Disgruntled Cloud Engineer Sentenced to Two Years in Prison for Intentionally Damaging His Former Employer’s Computer Network After He Was Fired
Miklos Daniel Brody Retaliated Against His Former Employer, a Bank, byDamaging the Bank’s Cloud System and Stealing Valuable Computer Code SAN FRANCISCO – Miklos Daniel Brody was sentenced to 24 months in prison todayfor a network intrusion and for making false statements to a governmentagency, announced United States Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey and United StatesSecret […]
Ukraine’s top mobile operator hit by biggest cyber attack of war so far
Reuters reports: Ukraine’s biggest mobile network operator, Kyivstar, was hit on Tuesday by what appeared to be the biggest cyber attack of the war with Russia so far, knocking out mobile and internet services for millions. Kyivstar has 24.3 million mobile subscribers – more than half of Ukraine’s population – as well as over 1.1 […]
Threat Actor Targets Recruiters With Malware
Infosecurity Magazine reports: Proofpoint has warned recruiters of a skilled threat actor targeting them with emails designed to deploy malware. TA4557 is a financially motivated threat actor known to distribute the More_Eggs backdoor, which is designed to establish persistence, profile the targeted machine and drop additional payloads. Throughout 2022 and most of 2023 the actor has […]
Navigating the complexities of regulatory data incident investigations
From the law firm of Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP: It is indeed a tangled regulatory web woven to potentially trap an organization in the wake of a data incident. Navigating this web can involve significant resources, time, and stress. As we discussed in part two of this series, “Your organization has suffered a data incident: […]
North Korean hackers Lazarus Group takes new Telegram tactics
SiliconAngle reports: Cisco Systems Inc.’s Talos Intelligence unit posted today new findings about the North Korean hacking group called Lazarus that outline new ways it’s targeting attacks. “We have observed Lazarus target companies in the manufacturing, agricultural and physical security sectors,” their analysts wrote in the post. The group has been around since 2010 and was responsible most recently […]
Cybersecurity tips to travel safe
In June of this year, the Oklahoma Office of Management and Enterprise Services published some cybersecurity tips for travelers. With Christmas travel coming up for many people, we thought this might be a good time to share them here: 1. Use a VPN (virtual private network): A VPN encrypts and converts data on public Wi-Fi […]
Apple: 2.5B Records Exposed, Marking Staggering Surge in Data Breaches
Dark Reading reports the findings of an Apple-commissioned study supports the adoption of end-to-end encryption to protect sensitive data from theft or misuse: In 2021 and 2022, data breaches exposed a staggering 2.6 billion personal records — some 1.5 billion of them last year alone. That number will likely be even higher in 2023 if […]
23andMe updates user agreement to prevent data breach lawsuits
You have a massive data breach from a credential stuffing attack that affects millions of users’ sensitive genetic information, and then you change your terms of service to make it harder for people to sue you in the event of a data breach? How will that go over with the public and potential users? Bleeping […]