Infosecurity News

  1. Private Eye Charged in Hacking Scheme Seeks Plea Deal

    Suspect held in New York since 2019 over international hacker-for-hire scheme is ready to negotiate

  2. ACH Data Security Rule Takes Effect

    Sensitive financial information must now be unreadable when stored electronically

  3. Smart Home Experiences Over 12,000 Cyber-Attacks in a Week

    A Which? analysis found that that a home filled with smart devices was targeted by over 12,000 unique scans/hacks in a single week

  4. Record Year for Investigators in Healthcare Fraud Cases

    Department of Justice reportedly opened 580 new cases in 2020

  5. Microsoft Assigns CVE to PrintNightmare but No CVSS Score

    Tech giant claims it’s still investigating the impact of the bug

  6. Russia's APT28 Blamed for Brute Force Campaign Using Kubernetes

    Threat actors have targeted hundreds of US and European organizations

  7. New Charges Filed Against Alleged Capital One Hacker

    Software engineer faces six new charges over theft of 20TB of personal data

  8. Gozi Virus Arrest Made in Colombia

    Romanian suspected of role in infection of over a million computers is arrested in Bogota

  9. Putin Orders Twitter to Open Russian Office

    New law requires big foreign social media companies operating in Russia to open offices there

  10. First-of-its-Kind SASE Accreditation Course Launched

    The SASE Accreditation course is designed to offer cyber pros hands-on experience in cloud security disciplines

  11. Criminal VPN Service Dismantled by Global Police

    DoubleVPN offered anonymity to threat actors from just $25

  12. Infosec Community Posts Solidarity Bikini Pics After Twitter Troll Outburst

    Security pro’s Twitter post outraged one follower

  13. PrintNightmare: Windows Zero-Day Accidentally Disclosed by Chinese Researchers

    Bug affects Print Spooler and could enable remote control of domain controllers

  14. Four in Ten Americans Use Embarrassing Passwords

    Survey finds 38% of Americans would be mortified if they had to say their password aloud

  15. Analyst Steals Millions by Spoofing Director

    Trading analyst fraudulently authorized transfers then diverted funds to accounts under his control

  16. Accenture Acquires Sentor

    Swedish cyber-defense and managed security firm snapped up by consulting firm

  17. French Court Upholds Bitcoin BTC-e Employee's Sentence

    Alexander Vinnik loses appeal against five-year prison sentence for money laundering

  18. Pentagon CISO Suspected of Sharing Secrets

    Katie Arrington on leave while classified disclosure concerns are investigated

  19. Salvation Army Hit by Ransomware Attack

    The Christian charity is thought to be negotiating with the attackers over the siphoned data

  20. No Pay Rise Since Pandemic for Two-Thirds of Cyber Pros

    Companies were more likely to offer pay rises to tech roles linked to creating value and agility

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