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A man from Florida has admitted cyberstalking a woman who survived a violent attack in her childhood that left another young girl dead. Alvin Willie George of Cross City pleaded guilty to two counts of cyberstalking related to the online harassment of the survivor and her sisters. According...

Official COVID-19 vaccine data stolen and leaked online by threat actors had been changed prior to publication in what could be a deliberate attempt to sow disinformation, a medical regulator has claimed. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) first revealed the data breach back in December...

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has warned that it could take a “significant period” of time before systems and services are fully restored after it was hit by ransomware on Christmas Eve. In a lengthy update late last week, the agency claimed that “a number” of its IT systems...

The largest carding marketplace on the dark web has announced it is shutting down for good, although experts warned that this will have little impact on the overall cybercrime economy. The administrator of the Joker’s Stash site posted the news on Friday, claiming that the marketplace would...

The United States National Security Agency has announced the appointment of Roy Joyce as the new leader of its Cybersecurity Directorate. Joyce will take over from Anne Neuberger, who was first to lead the NSA's Cybersecurity Directorate when it was established in October 2019. Neuberger was...

An American health insurer has agreed to pay $5.1m to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules. The agreement entered...

EEMA, the leading independent European think tank focused on identity, privacy and trust, has announced the appointment of Steve Pannifer to its board of management. Pannifer, who is chief operations officer at Consult Hyperion, is renowned for his expertise in the field of digital identity...

The United States has withdrawn an extradition request for an Irish hacker convicted of breaking into virtual wallets to steal millions of dollars in cryptocurrency. Conor Freeman was identified by US Homeland Security as one of at least five co-conspirators involved in a string of digital...

The past year has seen double-digit increases in the value of GDPR fines imposed by regulators and the volume of breaches notified to regulators, according to a new analysis by DLA Piper. The international law firm said that €158.5m ($192m, £141m) in fines was imposed since January 28 2020, a...

Financial services firms were hit hard over the past year, with 70% experiencing a successful cyber-attack and most of these blaming COVID-related conditions for the incident, according to Keeper Security. The password security firm commissioned the Ponemon Institute to poll over 370 UK IT...

A cloud misconfiguration at a now-defunct social media app has exposed hundreds of thousands of files, including explicit photos of users that they thought had been deleted, according to vpnMentor. A research team led by Noam Rotem discovered the AWS S3 bucket on October 13 last year, tracing...

“A world leader once said ‘a decade can go by without any real news and then you can feel a decade happening in a week.’ I feel that a decade has happened in the past year,” commented Børge Bende, president of the World Economic Forum (WEF), speaking during a press conference highlighting the...

IoT and OT security firm Nozomi Networks has announced that enterprise security leader Barmak Meftah has joined its board of directors. Meftah brings more than 25 years of experience in building market-leading enterprise SaaS and cybersecurity companies to Nozomi Networks and most recently...

A team of enterprise resource planning security experts in Massachusetts have identified a functional exploit affecting SAP that is publicly available. The exploit was discovered by Onapsis Research Labs on code-hosting platform GitHub, where it had been published by Russian researcher Dmitry...

Fourteen people have been arrested in France as part of a nationwide sweep to combat the sexual exploitation of children online. The arrests were made by the French Gendarmerie (Gendarmerie nationale) with the support of Europol as part of an operation that was code-named Horus. All suspects...

Medical records belonging to truck drivers and rail workers may have been exposed following an alleged cyber-attack on an occupational healthcare provider in Virginia. Data apparently belonging to employees of the United Parcel Service (UPS) and Norfolk Southern Railroad was published online...

Security experts have warned that more nasty surprises may be in store for recipients of a Department for Education (DfE) laptop scheme, after malware was found on some machines. Malicious files were found on some laptops that were sent to a Bradford school as part of the government’s attempt...

Publicly reported global breach volumes dropped 48% last year compared to 2019, but the number of exposed records soared 141% to top 37 billion, according to new data from Risk Based Security. The security vendor uses automated tools to crawl the internet for info on breaches, which are then...

The effectiveness of offensive capabilities in deterring nation state actors was discussed by a panel during the recent ‘RSAC 365 Innovation Showcase: Cyber Deterrence’ webinar. Chair of the session, Jonathan Luff, co-founder at Cylon, observed that now is the ideal time to be asking if and...

A woman from Pennsylvania will appear before a federal court on Monday to face charges in connection with the theft of a laptop belonging to Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi. The computer was stolen from Pelosi's office earlier this month when a crowd of people...