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From the Illinois Senate Democrats: State Senator Laura Murphy is leading a comprehensive measure to protect consumers’ data and shield them from targeted advertisements. “By placing guardrails around consumers’ personal information, we eliminate comp… Continue reading Murphy measure to protect Illinois consumers’ sensitive data advances in Senate
Bitdefender reports: An international law enforcement operation led by France and the Netherlands dismantled First VPN, a cybercriminal anonymization service used by ransomware actors, fraudsters, and data thieves across every major cybercrime investig… Continue reading Operation Saffron: Bitdefender Joins “First VPN” Takedown
Adil Faouzi reports: Global cybersecurity firms Kaspersky and Group-IB have disclosed their contributions to Operation Ramz, the first large-scale cybercrime crackdown coordinated by INTERPOL across the Middle East and North Africa region. The operati… Continue reading Kaspersky, Group-IB Detail Role in INTERPOL Cyber Operation Involving Morocco
Alexander Martin reports: The British government’s plans to overhaul the country’s main cybercrime law would offer such narrow legal protections that most security researchers would be left in the same position as today, multiple sources briefed … Continue reading UK plans for cybercrime law reform would protect almost no one, experts warn
Failure to terminate an employee’s credentials when their employment ended and failure to use unique and protected login credentials for work left a city at risk of having its water utility totally compromised. Avram Piltch reports: Our tale of t… Continue reading Today’s reminder to terminate employees’ credentials when their employment ends
Sergiu Gatlan reports: GitHub has confirmed that roughly 3,800 internal repositories were breached after one of its employees installed a malicious VS Code extension. The company has since removed the unnamed trojanized extension from the VS Code marke… Continue reading GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension
U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) raised concerns about the recent cybersecurity incident on Instructure, threatening the data of 27… Continue reading Chairman Cassidy, Tuberville Seek Answers on Canvas Cybersecurity Incident, Calls for More Safeguards to Protect Students
Ben Smith reports: Lawmakers are only now learning that hackers breached a congressional medical contractor more than two months ago. RXNT, a healthcare software company used by the Office of the Attending Physician (OAP) to manage prescription service… Continue reading Congress Learns of Prescription Data Hack Months Later
Claim Depot reports: Extant Aerospace, a defense and space electronics company based in Melbourne, Florida, disclosed a data breach that affected 3,012 individuals in the United States. The company, legally known as Symetrics Industries LLC, manufactur… Continue reading Extant Aerospace Data Breach Exposed SSNs for More Than 3,000 People
Media outlets have been understandably eager to learn whether Instructure paid ShinyHunters after the latter attacked them for a second time on May 7. Considering that they pledged to be more transparent, DataBreaches doesn’t fully understand why… Continue reading Another detail emerges about Instructure’s agreement with ShinyHunters; Debate continues about whether to pay