Data, Privacy, And the Future of Artificial Intelligence
By Michael G. McLaughlin, Associate, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC Data privacy and protection have become both central and increasingly restrictive for businesses…
Month: January 2023
Top ERP Firm Exposed Half a Million Indian Job Seekers Data
At the time of writing, a misconfigured server belonging to an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software provider based in California, United States was still exposing…
Ransomware impacts over 200 govt, edu, healthcare orgs in 2022
Ransomware attacks in 2022 impacted more than 200 hundred larger organizations in the U.S. public sector in the government, educational, and healthcare verticals. Data collected…
LockBit ransomware group issues an apology to Canada’s biggest pediatric hospital and provides a free decryptor
SickKids Hospital, located in Toronto, is a center for medical education and research with a primary emphasis on the treatment of ill children. On December…
Flaws in Citrix Servers; Netgear Issues Critical Advisory
Cybercrime as-a-service , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Endpoint Security Advisory Urges Customers to Update their Devices to the Latest Firmware Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) •…
Why Do Ransomware Victims Pay for Data Deletion Guarantees?
Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Paying for Promises That Can’t Be Audited Paints a Repeat-Attack Target on Victims Mathew J. Schwartz…
Malaysian Agencies Investigate Alleged Breach Affecting 13 Million
Critical Infrastructure Security , Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Maybank – Country’s Largest Institution – Denies Data Breach Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • January 2,…
PyTorch Machine Learning Framework Compromised with Malicious Dependency
Jan 02, 2023Ravie LakshmananSupply Chain / Machine Learning The maintainers of the PyTorch package have warned users who have installed the nightly builds of the…
Why a ‘Paradigm Shift’ is Required in the SOC
Security Operations , Security Operations Center (SOC) , Video Nat Smith of Gartner on New Skillset Needed for Investigations Anna Delaney (annamadeline) • January 2,…
Google to pay compensation for Location Tracking
When the next time you give your smart phone’s location tracking control to Google, please be aware that the internet juggernaut can use it to…
RedZei Chinese Scammers Targeting Chinese Students in the U.K.
Jan 02, 2023Ravie LakshmananOnline Scam / Cybersecurity Chinese international students in the U.K. have been targeted by persistent Chinese-speaking scammers for over a year as…
Copper Mining Firm Shuts Down Mill after Ransomware Attack
The Canadian Copper Mountain Mining Corporation (CMMC) is affected by a ransomware attack on December 27, 2022. With regard to the incident, the company swiftly…