Vermont governor rejects state’s tough data privacy bill
Vermont Gov. Phil Scott has vetoed comprehensive consumer privacy legislation that would allow individuals an unprecedented right to sue companies which violate their data privacy rights. The...
Cyber Force provision moves ahead in House and Senate defense policy bills
Story updated noon Eastern time with details of the Senate Armed Services Committee bill. Proponents of creating a U.S. Cyber Force received a boost on Friday, as...
Ukraine Police Arrest Suspect Linked to LockBit and Conti Ransomware Groups
Jun 13, 2024NewsroomCyber Crime / Ransomware
The Cyber Police of Ukraine has announced the arrest of a local man who is suspected to have offered their services to LockBit and...
Spy agencies’ foreign influence hub says it is issuing more private warnings
The U.S intelligence community’s hub for fighting election interference by foreign adversaries has issued warnings to more targets of such campaigns over the last year than since it...
Ascension: Hackers stole some patient data but didn’t breach electronic health record system
Ransomware hackers who attacked the nonprofit hospital network Ascension last month were not able to exfiltrate data from the electronic health record system, a pivotal finding given the...
Black Basta Ransomware May Have Exploited MS Windows Zero-Day Flaw
Jun 12, 2024NewsroomRansomware / Endpoint Security
Threat actors linked to the Black Basta ransomware may have exploited a recently disclosed privilege escalation flaw in the Microsoft Windows Error Reporting Service...
Black Basta ransomware gang may have exploited Windows flaw before it was patched
The group operating the notorious Black Basta ransomware may have exploited a recently patched Windows vulnerability as a zero-day, researchers have found. In March, a high-severity flaw...
No FISA fix in annual intelligence policy bill approved by House panel
The House Intelligence Committee has approved its annual policy bill, which does not curtail the reach of a recently passed surveillance law, setting up a clash with the...
‘Junk inferences’ by data brokers are a problem for consumers and the industry itself
The data broker industry is sometimes criticized as creepy and Orwellian because it collects, packages and sells information about people to other companies and even the government. It’s...
Dutch intelligence says Chinese hacking campaign ‘more extensive’ than previously known
The Dutch military intelligence and security service (MIVD) is warning that a global Chinese cyber-espionage campaign is likely “much more extensive than previously known.” An alert published...
