A blast of thousands of fake emails from the FBI named security professional Vinny Troia as a criminal. Troia believes the perpetrator is affiliated with several different criminal groups and also running a “white hat” security firm in Canada.
Costco sent a data breach notification to its customers after discovering a credit card skimmer at one of its stores. Several customers complained of unauthorized transactions.
A new ransomware reporting bill introduced to the House of Representatives proposes putting new requirements on financial institutions, some of which are likely to be controversial. Any payment of over $100,000 would require the victim to first obtain special permission from the US Treasury.
A little-known law from 1984, originally intended to discourage large cash transfers, has been repurposed as a crypto regulation and tucked into the massive US infrastructure bill.
Australia's privacy commissioner has ruled that Clearview AI has violated the privacy of the country's residents, and that means it will be forced to delete its cache of their facial recognition data.
Anyone operating a business that violates the privacy rights of people in Quebec or fails to meet Quebec's stringent new requirements for protecting personal information may face administrative monetary penalties, fines, binding orders, and civil action.
Traditional form of security awareness training rarely achieves what it’s set out to do. Instead, valuable time is taken out of employees’ days to complete training that positions them as the problem, thereby reinforcing a negative stigma and undermining the entire process.
After its infrastructure went offline in October, there was widespread speculation that the REvil ransomware group was done for good. The likelihood of that increased with last week's apprehension of affiliates along with the seizure of $6.1 million.
Robinhood, the most popular app-based trading platform for non-professional investors, has confirmed that it suffered a data breach due to a social engineering attack last week that potentially compromised millions of accounts.”
A new report indicates that ransomware costs are being cut considerably due to better preparedness. And though cyber insurance claims spiked in early 2021 due to the Microsoft Exchange vulnerability, they have been on a steep downward trend since.
