After an apparent refusal to pay a ransom demand, Russian hackers have leaked a sampling of 13 million records of UK police data to the dark web in retaliation. The records were stolen from a police contractor.
Natural gas supplier Superior Plus suffered a ransomware attack that knocked its systems offline although customer safety and security and personal data were not affected.
Privacy rules do for enterprise what enterprise won’t do for itself. Asking Big Tech to take the high road even when it hurts their profits is like asking dental patients to pull their own teeth. As long as policymakers delay robust data regulations, there aren’t any rules for Big Tech to break.
Volvo disclosed a security breach that resulted in a R&D data theft by Snatch cyber threat actors. The company added that customers’ car safety and private information were not affected.
This year's set of Gartner cybersecurity predictions touches on the expected growth of privacy laws and ransomware regulations, changes to corporate security structures, and even a warning of the first uses of operational technology to cause human casualties.
Cox communications data breach notification disclosed that unauthorized individual(s) accessed sensitive customer information after impersonating the company's support agent.
Restoration of simple EU-US data transfers hinges on assurances from the US that these communications will not be subject to government surveillance. A new research paper looks to untangle this problem and provide some sort of a path forward.
Report from security firm Analyst1 illustrates how agile ransomware groups have become, to the point that they are backing off and regrouping with new tactics before slow-moving legislation and enforcement can catch up with them.
Brazil's Health Ministry is looking at extended downtime for the system that processes Covid-19 vaccination data as it attempts to recover from two ransomware attacks that came just four days apart.
Polish antitrust investigation is interested in Apple's plans for its own limited targeted advertising product, but apparently will also be examining the real world effectiveness of the App Tracking Transparency framework.
