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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...

A former home security technician has admitted habitually hacking into customers' home surveillance cameras to spy on people without their consent. Telesforo Aviles accessed the accounts of around 200 customers more than 9,600 times over a period of four and half years while employed by...

The European Data Protection Board has issued new advice to hospitals regarding what action to take in the event of a cyber-attack. Currently released in draft form, the new set of recommendations urges healthcare providers hit with ransomware to report the attack even if no patient data is...

Intel was forced to issue its financial results earlier than expected last week after an internal error made public some of the information before it was due to be released, the firm has confirmed. Originally, Intel CFO, George Davis claimed a “hacker” had got hold of an infographic detailing...

Security vendor SonicWall has warned its customers that threat actors may have found zero-day vulnerabilities in some of its remote access products. An initial post on the vendor’s knowledgebase pages on Friday claimed that the NetExtender VPN client version 10.x and the SMB-focused SMA 100...

The Russian government has issued cybersecurity guidance to businesses in the country after claiming they are at risk of US reprisals for the recent SolarWinds attacks. The alert came late last week from the National Coordination Center for Computer Incidents (NKTsKI), an agency created in 2018...

Professional services network Deloitte & Touche LLP today announced its acquisition of substantially all the assets of cybersecurity company Root9B, LLC (R9B). Founded in 2011 as a cybersecurity training company with a vision of delivering military-grade technology to the private sector, Root9B...

A San Francisco law firm has launched an investigation into a data breach that took place at a subsidiary of Petco Health and Wellness Company. The breach, which occurred over a six-month period last year, resulted in the exposure of the payment card information of tens of thousands of...

A man from Texas has been convicted of operating a website dedicated to publishing stories detailing the sexual abuse of children. Brewster County resident Thomas Alan Arthur was convicted by a federal jury on January 21 following a trial that lasted three days. According to trial evidence...