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Russian hackers who stole red team tools from FireEye may have been in action on a much broader scale, operating a sophisticated supply chain campaign targeting multiple global organizations and governments. FireEye revealed in an update on Sunday that nation state attackers inserted malicious...

A former Cisco engineer has been sentenced to 24 months behind bars after causing millions of dollars in damages and losses for his former employer. Sudhish Kasaba Ramesh, 31, of San Jose, pleaded guilty back in August to one count of intentionally accessing a protected computer without...

Google has hired the first security boss for its cloud business in the form of British-born Phil Venables. A 25+ year veteran of the industry with experience in CISO roles in some of the world’s biggest banks, Venables officially joined Google Cloud this month, according to his LinkedIn...

Sensitive data of around two million members of the Communist Party of China (CPC) have been leaked, highlighting their positions in major organizations, including government agencies, throughout the world. According to reports from The Australian newspaper, featured in the Economic Times, the...

One of the internet's most popular purveyors of pornography has removed all unverified content from its website. Pornhub said it took the step last week in an effort to combat the rising tide of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) flooding the internet. Unverified uploaders have been banned from...

Cybersecurity assessment provider Outpost24 has announced it has closed a new funding round worth SEK 200m (€19m). The company said the funding, which was led by asset manager Swedbank Rohur and Nordic equity investment firm Alcur Fonder, will enable it to expand its offering and services...

Legislation to enhance federal criminal penalties for adults convicted of cyber-stalking children has been passed to America's President Donald Trump for signature. The Combat Online Predators Act seeks to amend the federal criminal code to increase the maximum prison term for a stalking...

A cyber-stalker from Arizona who joined up with a neo-Nazi group to harass and threaten journalists, advocates, and other targets has been sentenced to prison. Johnny Roman Garza admitted to conspiring with other members of the Atomwaffen Division to deliver menacing messages to journalists...

One of the internet's most popular purveyors of pornography has removed all unverified content from its website. Pornhub said it took the step last week in an effort to combat the rising tide of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) flooding the internet. Unverified uploaders have been banned from...

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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...