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A former China liaison at Zoom has been indicted by the US for interfering in meetings, monitoring users and fabricating evidence against them as per Beijing’s instructions. Xinjiang (“Julien”) Jin, faces a maximum 10 years in prison if found guilty of conspiracy to commit interstate harassment...

The US Senate has unanimously passed a new bipartisan bill designed to punish foreign firms that actively seek to steal American intellectual property (IP). Co-authored by senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Sasse, the Protecting American Intellectual Property Act will allow the authorities to...

The price of stolen credit card details and cybercrime tools has in many cases seen triple-digit growth over the past two years, according to new dark web research compiled by Flashpoint. The risk intelligence firm trawled some of the more established cybercrime marketplaces across the deep and...

Insurance broker Gallagher has announced the appointment of three new cybersecurity specialists to grow its cyber-risk knowledge, thereby helping clients better prepare themselves against attacks. The appointments are designed to enhance Gallagher’s cyber-practice within its UK retail division...

A record growth in ransomware attacks took place in Q3 of 2020 compared to Q2, from 39% to 51% of all malware attempts, according to Positive Technologies’ Cybersecurity Threatscape: Q3 2020 report. The study also found that hacking accounted for 30% of all attacks during Q3, with...

The Trump administration has come up with a proposal to split up the leadership of US Cyber Command and the National Security Agency (NSA). Under the existing "dual-hat" arrangement, the posts of CYBERCOM commander and NSA director are held by one individual. Right now, that person is General...

Arlington Capital Partners portfolio company BlueHalo today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Maryland businesses Base2 LLC and Fortego LLC. While both companies are leading providers of complex, mission-critical cyber and Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) solutions, Base2...

Russia has officially denied any culpability for a recent cyber-attack that impacted at least six federal agencies in the United States. America's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an emergency directive last week after cyber-criminals trojanized updates to...

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An employee at a tech company based in Virginia has been sent to prison for stealing personally identifiable information (PII) from Healthcare.gov customers and exploiting it for profit. Colbi Trent Defiore accessed data belonging to more than 8,000 individuals without authorization while...

Researchers at a British university have created a new algorithm that uses artificial intelligence to predict which Twitter users are going to spread disinformation before they do it. The machine-learning algorithm was developed by a team of researchers at the University of Sheffield, led by...

Microsoft has notified over 40 customers that they have been compromised by malicious SolarWinds updates as part of a massive suspected Russian cyber-espionage campaign. The attacks, which the US government admitted to for the first time on Wednesday, are thought to have compromised numerous...

A high impact vulnerability has been discovered in a popular Java cryptography library which could allow attackers to more easily brute force Bcrypt hashed passwords. CVE-2020-28052 is an authentication bypass bug in the OpenBSDBcrypt class of the widely used Bouncy Castle library. By...

UK energy supplier People’s Energy has suffered a data breach affecting its entire database, including information on previous customers. Co-founder of the company, Karin Sode, told BBC News that sensitive personal information of its customers, including names, addresses, dates of birth, phone...

The European Commission finally approved Google’s acquisition of Fitbit yesterday, adding some conditions intended to protect user privacy and competition, although campaigners are disappointed in the decision. The Commission has been mulling the $2.1bn acquisition of the fitness monitoring...

Data privacy trends in the US in light of this year’s election and other recent events were discussed by a panel during the FTI Consulting webinar The New Privacy Landscape: California’s New Law and Prospects for Federal Action. The significance of the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA)...

Chinese multinational technology company Group Holding Ltd is offering Uyghur/ethnic minority recognition as a cloud service, according to a new report by surveillance industry researcher IPVM and The New York Times. Users simply send photographs of people taken on their phones or pulled from...

The Justice Institute of British Columbia (JIBC) has launched a new online Graduate Certificate in Cybercrime Analysis to help meet Canada's growing demand for professionals with cybersecurity skills. This new post-graduate program has been established to furnish professionals with the advanced...

A new information sharing and analysis center (ISAC) set up to help American school districts protect themselves against cyber-threats has named its first national director. Heading up the Kindergarten Through Twelfth Grade Security Information Exchange, or K12 SIX, is president of consulting...

A former China liaison at Zoom has been indicted by the US for interfering in meetings, monitoring users and fabricating evidence against them as per Beijing’s instructions. Xinjiang (“Julien”) Jin, faces a maximum 10 years in prison if found guilty of conspiracy to commit interstate harassment...