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A Kosovan hacker, imprisoned in the United States for stealing personal data belonging to US military and government personnel and sending it to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), has been granted compassionate release. Ardit Ferizi was sentenced to 20 years in prison in September...

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...

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...

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...

A Kosovan hacker, imprisoned in the United States for stealing personal data belonging to US military and government personnel and sending it to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), has been granted compassionate release. Ardit Ferizi was sentenced to 20 years in prison in September...

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...

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...