Regulatory Compliance
‘Terrorgram’ Telegram Terrorists Trash Transformers — Grid in Peril
Should’ve listened to Edison: After the arrest of Pavel Durov—the Telegram CEO—comes news of domestic extremists using the chat app to organize ...
Pig Butchering at Heart of Bank Failure — CEO Gets 24 Years in Jail
Oink, oink, FAIL—you’re in jail: Kansas bank chief exec Shan Hanes stole money from investors, a church and others to buy cryptocurrency to feed a scam ...
Survey: Senior Executives Being Held More Accountable for Cybersecurity
A global survey of 1,850 IT and cybersecurity decision-makers finds more than half (51%) reporting that directors or executives have faced fines, jail time, loss of position, or loss of employment following ...
Don’t Mess With Texas Privacy: AG Sues GM for $18 BILLION
KP♡TX PII: “General Motors has engaged in egregious business practices that violated Texans’ privacy … in unthinkable ways,” rants state attorney general Ken Paxton (pictured) ...
August Patch Pileup: Microsoft’s Zero-Day Doozy Dump
See These CVEs: Patch Tuesday—ten zero-days, seven Critical vulns, zero time to waste ...
Student Devices Wiped — Mobile Guardian Hacked AGAIN
Hackers ate my homework: MDM software for schools is breached for second time this year—13,000 devices wiped in Singapore alone ...
TikTok Abuses Kids, say DoJ and FTC
For You Plague: U.S. Justice Dept. and Federal Trade Commission file lawsuit, alleging TikTok broke the COPPA law, plus a previous injunction ...
Prisoner Swap: Huge Russian Hackers Freed — Seleznev and Klyushin
Pragmatic politics: Anger as Putin gets back two notorious cybercriminals ...
CrowdStrike Sued? — Delta Dials David Boies
Is Delta the First of Many? Airline calls in attorneys Boies Schiller Flexner to claw back its cash ...
PKfail: 800+ Major PC Models have Insecure ‘Secure Boot’
Big BIOS bother: Hundreds of PC models from vendors such as HP, Lenovo, Dell, Intel, Acer and Gigabyte shipped with useless boot protection—using private keys that aren’t private ...
