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It’s easy to forget that just because a news cycle may be about 15 minutes, incident response is much longer. The following is an update from St. Mary’s County in Maryland about the CodeRED emergency systems ransomware attack that affected … Continue reading CodeRED Emergency Notification System Incident Update
Liv McMahon reports: Discord will soon require users globally to verify their age with a face scan or by uploading a form of ID if they want to access adult content. […] Users can either upload a photo of their ID to confirm their age or take a v… Continue reading Discord to start requiring face scan or ID to access adult content
Deeba Ahmed reports: Security experts in Germany are on high alert following a wave of digital attacks aimed at high-ranking officials and public figures. The warning comes from the country’s top security bodies- the Federal Office for Information Secu… Continue reading Hackers Use Signal QR Codes to Spy on Military and Political Leaders
Daryna Antoniuk reports: Romania’s national oil pipeline operator Conpet said a cyberattack disrupted parts of its technology infrastructure and knocked its website offline earlier this week, adding that oil transport operations were not affected. Conp… Continue reading Romania’s oil pipeline operator confirms cyberattack as hackers claim data theft
On January 29, 2026, the FCC issued public notice DA 26-96: PUBLIC SAFETY AND HOMELAND SECURITY BUREAU HIGHLIGHTS BEST PRACTICES FOR DEFENDING AGAINST RANSOMWARE ATTACKS By this Public Notice, the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (Bureau) of … Continue reading FCC Cybersecurity Alert and Recommendations to Communications Providers
Mathew J. Schwartz reports: The Clop digital extortion gang for years perfected a method for wringing tens of millions out of cybercrime. Find a zero-day flaw, often in file transfer software, swarm vulnerable networks and post online the sensitive dat… Continue reading Some good news: downstream victims of mass data theft campaigns are less likely to pay — incident responders
Shawn Slaght reports: Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner Grace Hession David found that a privacy breach involving an employee at the Dr. F.H. Wigmore Regional Hospital did take place. The decision found that a unit clerk in the emergenc… Continue reading Hospital employee snooped in 98 patient records, Saskatchewan privacy commissioner finds
APA reports: Personal data of employees of the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, AP) and the Council for Justice was accessed by unauthorized persons as a result of a leak caused by a vulnerability in software used by govern… Continue reading Several Dutch agencies suffer major data breach
Harvey Kong reports: Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog plans to consult lawmakers this year about introducing mandatory data breach reporting and related penalties, the body’s chief has said. Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data Ada Chung Lai-ling on Satu… Continue reading Hong Kong plans to revive privacy law requiring firms to report data breaches
Government advisories have informed entities and the public that paying ransomware gangs to get a decryptor key is no guarantee that you will get the decryptor key, or even if you get one, that none of the files will have been corrupted. Here’s a… Continue reading Nitrogen’s ransomware can’t be decrypted — even by Nitrogen