U.S. Charges Uber’s Ex-Security Chief With Deliberately Concealing 2016 Hacking August 21, 2020 By Joseph Menn and Jonathan Stempel In an unprecedented case, a former chief security officer for Uber Technologies was criminally charged on Thursday with trying to...
Cable Appointed Chief of New Data Privacy and Security Division in Mass. AG’s Office August 14, 2020 Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey has announced the creation of the Data Privacy and Security Division within her office to...
China-Backed Hackers ‘Targeted’ COVID-19 Vaccine Firm Moderna, Reuters Reports July 31, 2020 By Christopher Bing and Marisa Taylor Chinese government-linked hackers targeted biotech company Moderna Inc., a U.S.-based coronavirus vaccine research developer, this year in a bid to...
Twitter Offers Some Details on How Hackers Accessed Data July 20, 2020 Twitter Inc. said on Saturday that hackers were able to download account information for up to eight accounts involved in...
Coordinated Twitter Hacking Raises Concerns About Platform’s Security July 16, 2020 By Joseph Menn and Raphael Satter The extraordinary hacking spree that hit Twitter on Wednesday, leading it to briefly muzzle some of its most widely followed...
U. of California, San Francisco, Paid $1.14M After Ransomware Attack June 29, 2020 By Kartikay Mehrotra The University of California, San Francisco paid criminal hackers $1.14 million this month to resolve a ransomware attack. The hackers...
Cybersecurity Firm Exposes Chinese Tax Software’s Malware That Endangers Networks June 26, 2020 When a U.K.-based technology vendor started doing business in China, it hired a cybersecurity firm to proactively hunt for any...
Ireland, Luxembourg Lag in Support for Policing EU Data Privacy Compliance June 25, 2020 By Foo Yun Chee Ireland and Luxembourg, European headquarters to Google, Facebook, Twitter and Amazon, need a substantial boost in resources to deal with...
Show Them the Money: Cyber Attackers Desire Financial Gain More Than Espionage May 19, 2020 By Arriana McLymore Money trumped spying as the top motivator for data breaches last year, according to Verizon’s annual report on cyber crimes...
From Google to Webex to Teams to Zoom: How to Choose a Videoconferencing App April 21, 2020 By Supantha Mukherjee and Munsif Vengattil The coronavirus crisis has seen millions locked in their homes turn to videoconferencing apps, bringing with it question marks over...