Justifying Compliance Tools Before a Breach Occurs - Breaches, be they accidental, careless, or malicious, are an inevitability for most companies. Depending on the industry, the consequences could range from something as minor as a little public embarrassment to hefty fines, lawsuits, expensive remediation actions, and loss of customer confidence (and,...
Comcast and Truist Bank customers caught up in FBCS data breach - Comcast Cable Communications and Truist Bank have disclosed they were impacted by a data breach at FBCS, and are now informing their respective customers that their data has been compromised.
Awaken Likho is awake: new techniques of an APT group - Kaspersky experts have discovered a new version of the APT Awaken Likho RAT Trojan, which uses AutoIt scripts and the MeshCentral system to target Russian organizations.
US, Microsoft Disrupts Russian FSB Hackers - Internet domains used by “Russian intelligence agents and their proxies” for cyberattacks, seized by the United States and Microsoft
UK nuclear site Sellafield fined $440,000 for cybersecurity shortfalls - Nuclear waste processing facility Sellafield has been fined £332,500 ($440k) by the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) for failing to adhere to cybersecurity standards and putting sensitive nuclear information at risk over four years, from 2019 to 2023.
Vulnerable APIs and Bot Attacks Costing Businesses Up to $186 Billion Annually - Organizations are losing between $94 - $186 billion annually to vulnerable or insecure APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and automated abuse by bots. That's according to The Economic Impact of API and Bot Attacks report from Imperva, a Thales company. The report highlights that these security...
E.U. Court Limits Meta's Use of Personal Facebook Data for Targeted Ads - Europe's top court has ruled that Meta Platforms must restrict the use of personal data harvested from Facebook for serving targeted ads even when users consent to their information being used for advertising purposes, a move that could have serious consequences for ad-driven companies operating in the...
