Iran News Update reports a dissident group called “Uprising Till Overthrow” managed to breach the servers and websites associated with the Iranian regime’s parliament. The leak of documents with the lawmakers’ salaries on social media has created quite a stir: Among the most significant revelations were documents containing correspondence and salary records of the 226 […]
Tech Times reports: A study by researchers from the University of Minnesota and George Mason University has reportedly claimed that US cybersecurity laws on breach notifications have little to no effect on curbing data breach incidents in the country. The legislation that requires businesses to tell customers if their data has been compromised, known as breach notification laws (BNLs), enacted by governments of […]
The biggest cybercrime news of the week may be the takedown of LockBit3.0, but U.S. law enforcement also made news last week by announcing rewards for information leading to the identification or location of leaders of AlphV (BlackCat) or those who participate in it. Here is the press release from the U.S. Department of State: […]
GovExex reports: The Defense Department is notifying some 26,000 individuals who were impacted by a data breach that was linked to a now secured server whose contents were released online last year, a spokesperson confirmed to Nextgov/FCW. The Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency on Feb. 1 issued a notice to those affected — including current and former employees — […]
More than 57,000 people enrolled in Bank of America deferred compensation plans are being notified of a data breach that occurred in early November 2023. The incident involved their Atlanta-based service provider, Infosys McCamish Systems LLC (“IMS”). Bank of America’s system was not affected or compromised. IMS is the U.S. subsidiary of Infosys BPM, an […]
FTC says company’s poor security allowed hacker to steal sensitive data of millions of consumers, go undetected for months South Carolina-based Blackbaud Inc. will be required to delete personal data that it doesn’t need to retain as part of a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over charges that the company’s lax security allowed a […]
The Guardian reports: A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) software engineer who was convicted for carrying out the largest theft of classified information in the agency’s history and of charges related to child abuse imagery was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Thursday. The 40-year sentence by US district judge Jesse Furman was for […]
Bloomberg News reports: A former Internal Revenue Service contractor who stole and leaked the tax returns of former President Donald Trump, Ken Griffin, Elon Musk and other billionaires was sentenced to five years in prison. Charles Littlejohn, 38, pleaded guilty Oct. 12 to stealing Trump’s tax data from the IRS and leaking it to the New York Times. He also admitted taking tax […]
Bloomberg Law reports on a case that probably has a lot of CISOs somewhat nervous: SolarWinds Corp. issued a full-throated denial of wrongdoing in how it handled one of the worst cyberattacks in history in a Friday court filing seeking the dismissal of US Securities and Exchange Commission allegations that its software security representations defrauded […]
Ransomware criminals lie to us. Can we lie to them?
Some ransomware gangs demand millions of dollars in ransom or even tens of millions of dollars. Even smaller businesses, non-profit organizations, and public school districts have increasingly become victims of cyberattacks because they are easy targets with poor defenses against attackers. Do you want your system unlocked? Do you want your data back or deleted […]