Details from more than 15,000 devices exposed If you use Fortinet, Computing.co.uk has information that you need to know: Hackers calling themselves Belsen Group have leaked details of users of Fortinet firewalls on the dark web. Researcher Kevin Beaumont, who has reviewed the data dump, says he believes it to be genuine, since devices in […]
Governments have routinely urged ransomware victims not to pay ransom demands, as it only encourages them to attack even more victims. Now the UK government may prohibit government and public sector entities from paying. LBC reports: Security minister Dan Jarvis told LBC: “We want these cyber criminals who operate from Russia and elsewhere to look […]
WSJ reports: Two brokerage units of Robinhood Markets agreed to pay $45 million to settle an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission into a range of alleged violations, including one stemming from a 2021 data breach that exposed millions of customer names and emails. The settlement is the latest in a string of big […]
As previously reported, a hacker claimed to have acquired a massive amount of data from Gravy Analytics. A sample of the data, confirmed by 404Media, was posted on a Russian-language forum by a user called “Nightly,” with a threat that if payment was not made, all of the data would be leaked. That post was […]
Joseph Lazzarotti of the Jackson Lewis law firm has some helpful advice for schools affected by the PowerSchool breach. Here are a few snippets: State breach notification laws generally place the obligation to notify affected persons and others on the owner of the personal information compromised in the breach, not the service provider that had […]
The Associated Press reports: Japan on Wednesday linked more than 200 cyberattacks over the past five years targeting the country’s national security and high technology data to a Chinese hacking group, MirrorFace, detailing their tactics and calling on government agencies and businesses to reinforce preventive measures. The National Police Agency said its analysis on the […]
24 hours. That’s the gap between PowerSchool’s disclosure of a hacking incident affecting teacher and student data and the filing of the first potential class-action lawsuit. Bloomberg Law reports on three potential class-action lawsuits that were filed on January 8th and 9th against the provider of cloud-based education software for K-12 schools: The complaints bring […]
This article by Alexander Castro originally appeared in Rhode Island Current on January 10, 2025 and is republished here under Creative Commons License. Rhode Island’s online public benefits system appears to be a fortress with many defenses, including 15 different kinds of security and monitoring software, state documentation shows. Despite those shields, a glut of […]
Last month, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it was taking action against Gravy Analytics Inc. and its subsidiary Venntel Inc. for unlawfully tracking and selling sensitive location data from users, including selling data about consumers’ visits to health-related locations and places of worship. Under a proposed order, Gravy Analytics and Venntel will be prohibited from […]
Bleeping Computer reports: Ukrainian hacktivists, part of the Ukrainian Cyber Alliance group, announced on Tuesday they had breached Russian internet service provider Nodex’s network and wiped hacked systems after stealing sensitive documents. “The Russian internet provider Nodex in St. Petersburg was completely looted and wiped. Data exfiltrated, while the empty equipment without backups was left […]
