Car Dealerships in North America Revert to Pens and Paper After Cyberattacks on Software Provider

Car dealerships in North America are still wrestling with major disruptions that started last week with cyberattacks on a company whose software is used widely in the auto retail sales sector.
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WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Will Plead Guilty in Deal With US and Return to Australia

Assange will plead guilty to an Espionage Act charge of conspiring to unlawfully obtain and disseminate classified national defense information, the Justice Department said.
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Chinese Hackers Have Stepped Up Attacks on Taiwanese Organizations, Cybersecurity Firm Says

A suspected Chinese state-sponsored hacking group has stepped up its targeting of Taiwanese organizations, particularly those in sectors such as government, education, technology and diplomacy.
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Japan’s Space Agency Was Hit by Multiple Cyberattacks, but Officials Say No Sensitive Data Was Taken

Japan’s space agency has suffered a series of cyberattacks, but sensitive information related to rockets and satellites was not affected.
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Investigation of Russian Hack on London Hospitals May Take Weeks Amid Worries Over Online Data Dump

Hundreds of operations and appointments are still being canceled more than two weeks after the June 3 cyberattack on NHS provider Synnovis.
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Change Healthcare to Start Notifying Customers Who Had Data Exposed in Cyberattack

Change Healthcare is starting to notify hospitals, insurers and other customers that they may have had patient information exposed in a massive cyberattack.
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OpenAI Co-Founder Sutskever Sets up New AI Company Devoted to ‘Safe Superintelligence’

Ilya Sutskever’s new company is focused on safely developing “superintelligence” – a reference to AI systems that are smarter than humans.
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Vermont Governor Vetoes Data Privacy Bill, Saying State Would be Most Hostile to Businesses

Republican Gov. Phil Scott said the legislation would have made Vermont “a national outlier and more hostile than any other state to many businesses and non-profits.”
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Supreme Court Will Take Up Meta’s Bid to End Lawsuit Over Cambridge Analytica Privacy Scandal

The Supreme Court will take up Meta’s bid to end the lawsuit over the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal.
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