The charges come following a series of stories published in 2019 by Greenwald’s news site The Intercept, based on a trove of data that it said “provides unprecedented insight into the operations of the anti-corruption task force that transformed Brazilian politics and gained worldwide attention.” The stories included excerpts of…
A leading offshore safety and verification body has reported a rapid rise in the number of ships seeking to gain a cybersecurity classification. Ship classification society Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore (BV) says it has seen a surge in the number of ships applying for its “Cyber Managed” notation. The notation…
An American businessman who co-founded a cybersecurity company has admitted to hiring criminals to carry out cyber-attacks against others. Tucker Preston, of Macon, Georgia, confessed to having paid threat actors to launch a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks between December 2015 and February 2016. DDoS attacks prevent a website from functioning…
Police Scotland has announced plans to establish “cyber kiosks” that will allow officers to scan locked smart devices for evidence. The 41 new kiosks will be located in police stations across local policing divisions, where they will be operated by over 400 specially trained officers. Each kiosk is essentially a desktop computer…
Hong Kong is set to follow the lead of European regulators in applying tougher penalties for data protection infractions, following a serious breach at airline Cathay Pacific in 2018. Proposed amendments to the regional government’s Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance, which cited the GDPR, would see fines levied as a percentage…
The UK government is facing urgent questions after it was revealed that betting companies were given access to a Department for Education (DfE) database containing personal information on 28 million children. Known as the Learning Record Service, the database stores information on students in England, Wales and North Ireland choosing…
Both Microsoft and the US government are warning computer users of a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Internet Explorer, which is currently being exploited in the wild. The zero-day bug, CVE-2020-0674, exists in the way the scripting engine handles objects in memory in IE, according to a Microsoft advisory…
With election season ramping up across the country, local election officials are happy to see a new change in federal policy. The FBI announced last week that the agency is working toward a commitment to notify state officials if election systems have been breached. Chris Chambless is the supervisor of…
The USA is considering legislation that would protect local governments by requiring the appointment of a cybersecurity leader for each state. Backers of the Cybersecurity State Coordinator Act of 2020 say the proposed law will improve intelligence sharing between state and federal governments and speed up incident response times in the event…
Cyber-threat activity has become an increasingly common topic of discussion in the media, and society in general. Why is this? Because of public disclosures, which have helped to shine a light on a hitherto murky part underworld of malware and hacking across the internet. But until now, little has been…
Lawmakers in the state of Maryland are considering making it a criminal offense to be in possession of ransomware. A bill was introduced on Tuesday, January 14, that seeks to penalize Marylanders who knowingly possess the malware and intend to use it to cause harm. The bill also grants victims…
Japanese company Mitsubishi Electric has today disclosed an information leak that occurred over six months ago. The century-old electronics and electrical equipment manufacturing firm announced the breach by issuing a brief statement on its website. An official internal investigation was launched after suspicious activity was observed taking place on June 28, 2019….
Data protection regulators have imposed €114m ($126m/£97m) in monetary fines under the GDPR for a wide range of infringements, according to new findings from DLA Piper. Whilst not all fines were related to data breach infringements, DLA Piper’s latest GDPR Data Breach Survey found that more than 160,000 data breach notifications…
Under-fire foreign currency firm Travelex has claimed its first customer-facing services in the UK have gone live after a crippling ransomware attack in December, with experts suggesting an unpatched VPN bug may have been to blame. The London-headquartered business has been slammed by customers after the suspected Sodinokibi (REvil) ransomware…
The number of London councils reporting lost or stolen mobile computing devices has more than doubled over the past three financial years, according to new Freedom of Information (FOI) data. Think tank Parliament Street compiled responses from 23 out of the 31 local borough councils that operate across the UK capital….
Citrix has begun issuing patches for a serious vulnerability in its Application Delivery Controller (ADC) product which experts have warned is being exploited in the wild. The tech giant revealed the CVE-2019-19781 bug in ADC and its Citrix Gateway back in December. If successfully exploited, it could allow an unauthenticated attacker…
Mon, Jan 20, 2020 – 9:38 AM [SYDNEY] Australia’s government aims to boost investment from India to develop its remote north, seen as a front door to lucrative Asian markets, amid concerns that tighter regulatory oversight and diplomatic tensions with Beijing will curb Chinese spending. While much of the foreign…
(Bloomberg Opinion) — Experts are warning that the U.S. should expect more cyberattacks by Iranian hackers in retaliation for the death of General Qasem Soleimani in a targeted drone strike. Maybe they’re right. But let’s not kid ourselves: Iran would be launching lots of cyberattacks anyway. And the danger of…
EXETER State Sen. Jon Morgan has unique insight into the Ukrainian energy company at the center of the ongoing impeachment trial against President Donald Trump. In his professional life, Morgan, a Brentwood Democrat, is a senior director of security operations for Area 1, a California-based cyber security company. Area 1…
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