Cyberlaw
National Public Data Sued for Hack that Exposed Data of 2.9 Billion People
National Public Data, a background check company that collects sensitive personal information, is facing a class-action legal complaint for allowing the data from 2.9 billion people to be stolen in a breach ...
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Prisoner Swap: Huge Russian Hackers Freed — Seleznev and Klyushin
Richi Jennings | | cyber attacks russia, Putin, Roman Seleznev, Russia, russia hacker, russia-based, Russian hacker, Russian hackers, Russian hacking, SB Blogwatch, Vladimir Putin, Vladislav Klyushin
Pragmatic politics: Anger as Putin gets back two notorious cybercriminals ...
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Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 8/2/24
David Lindner, Director, Application Security | | cyberattacks, cybercrime, Data breach, Labor Shortage, Law, Ransomware
Insight #1 Per IBM, the average cost of a data breach is now closing in on $5 million. You know what causes many of those breaches? Account compromise due to lack of ...
CrowdStrike Sued? — Delta Dials David Boies
Richi Jennings | | CrowdStrike, CrowdStrike Falcon, CrowdStrike incident;, Delta Airlines, falcon, SB Blogwatch
Is Delta the First of Many? Airline calls in attorneys Boies Schiller Flexner to claw back its cash ...
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Suspect Indicted in North Korea Group’s Expansive Spying Operation
North Korea's APT45 threat group is using ransomware attacks on U.S. health care firms to fund an ongoing cyberespionage campaign to steal military and defense secrets that are fed back into the ...
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Robot Dog Internet Jammer
Bruce Schneier | | Denial of Service, DHS, Internet of things, law enforcement, robotics, Uncategorized
Supposedly the DHS has these: The robot, called “NEO,” is a modified version of the “Quadruped Unmanned Ground Vehicle” (Q-UGV) sold to law enforcement by a company called Ghost Robotics. Benjamine Huffman, ...
Living-Off-Trusted-Sites (LOTS) or should we say services?
"Living Off-Trusted Sites (LOTS)" is not a new cybercrime tactic, but it continues to pose a significant threat. Join us as we explore the evolution of LOTS, its impact on online trust ...
EFF Angry as Google Keeps 3rd-Party Cookies in Chrome
Richi Jennings | | adtech, Advertising, Advertising and AdTech, adverts, Chrome, CMA, Competition and Markets Authority, cookie, Cookie Consent, cookieconsent, cookies, Data Privacy, EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation, FLEDGE, FLoC, GOOG, google, Google Chrome, ICO, information commissioner's office, IP Protection, Privacy, Privacy Sandbox, regulatory capture, SB Blogwatch, Surveillance capitalism, Topics, tracking, tracking cookies, web cookie, zero trust
Regulatory capture by stealth? Google changes its mind about third-party tracking cookies—we’re stuck with them for the foreseeable ...
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Judge Dismisses Most SEC Charges Against SolarWinds
Jeffrey Burt | | Securities and Exchange Commission, software supply chain attack, SolarWinds, Sunburst malware
A federal district court judge blew a hole in the SEC's case against SolarWinds, saying that while the company and its CISO could be tried for statements made before the high-profile Sunburst ...
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AT&T Says 110M Customers’ Data Leaked — Yep, it’s Snowflake Again
Richi Jennings | | 2 factor auth, 2-factor authentication, 2fa, ATT, Cloud MFA, Data leak, DUAL FACTOR AUTHENTICATION, MFA, mult-factor authentication, multi-factor authenication, Multi-Factor Authentication, Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Multifactor Authentication, NYSE:SNOW, NYSE:T, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, ShinyHunters, snowflake, threats, two factor authentication, UNC5537
Should’ve used MFA: $T loses yet more customer data—this time, from almost all of them ...
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