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Vastaamo villain more than doubled reported crime in Nordic nation

A cyber-thief who snatched tens of thousands of patients' sensitive records from a psychotherapy clinic before blackmailing them and then leaking their files online has been caged for six years and three months.…

Congress to hear how Citrix MFA snafu led to massive data theft, $870M+ loss

UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty will tell US lawmakers Wednesday the cybercriminals who hit Change Healthcare with ransomware used stolen credentials to remotely access a Citrix portal that didn't have multi-factor authentication enabled.…

Tried to sell top secret docs for the low, low price of $85K

A former NSA employee has been sentenced to 262 months in prison for attempting to do freelance as a Russian spy.…

Europe takes action after Facebook parent withdraws monitoring tool

The European Commission has launched formal proceedings against Meta, alleging failure to properly monitor distribution by "foreign actors" of political misinformation before June's European elections.…

Infosec eggheads find iGiant left EU iOS 17 users open to being tracked around the web

Apple's grudging accommodation of European antitrust rules by allowing third-party app stores on iPhones has left users of its Safari browser exposed to potential web activity tracking.…

Carriers claim real culprits are getting away with it - the data brokers

The FCC on Monday fined four major US telcos almost $200 million for "illegally" selling subscribers' location information to data brokers.…

Third of a million developer accounts kiboshed, too

Google says it stopped 2.28 million Android apps from being published in its official Play Store last year because they violated security rules.…

Canadian stores shuttered 'until further notice'

Canadian pharmacy chain London Drugs has closed all of its stores until further notice following a "cybersecurity incident."…

Finance minister says government has interests in IT giant's 'sovereign activities'

The French government has tabled an offer to buy key assets of ailing IT giant Atos after the company late last week almost doubled its estimate of the cash it will need to stay afloat in the near future.…

New laws mean vendors need to make clear how long you'll get updates too

Smart device manufacturers will have to play by new rules in the UK as of today, with laws coming into force to make it more difficult for cybercriminals to break into hardware such as phones and tablets.…

Ad tech rewrite to replace web cookies still not to regulatory taste

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) still has privacy and competition concerns about Google's Privacy Sandbox advertising toolkit, which explains why the ad giant recently again delayed its plan to drop third-party cookies in Chrome until 2025.…

How SSH Communications Security cuts through the hype around Zero Trust to secure the connections that matter

Sponsored Feature  As business enters the 2020s, organizations find themselves protecting fast-expanding digital estates using security concepts that are decades old.…

ALSO: Infostealer spotted hiding in CDN cache, antivirus update hijacked to deliver virus, and some critical vulns

Infosec in brief  They say sunlight is the best disinfectant, and that appears to have been true in the case of Discord data harvesting site Spy.pet – as it was recently and swiftly dismantled after its existence and purpose became known.…

Ouch!

Millions of Kaiser Permanente patients' data was likely shared with Google, Microsoft Bing, X/Twitter, and other third-parties, according to the American healthcare giant.…

Analysts brand deal a 'nail in the coffin' for UK tech investment

Private equity investor Thoma Bravo has successfully completed a second acquisition attempt of UK-based cybersecurity company Darktrace in a $5.3 billion deal.…

Only minor changes from original proposals that kicked up privacy storm

The UK's contentious Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill (IPB) 2024 has officially received the King's nod of approval and will become law.…

Check out the SANS CISO Primer for tips on hardening your organisation’s security posture in 2024

Sponsored Post  Ever get nostalgic for the good old days of cybersecurity protection? When attacks were for the most part amateurish and infrequent, and perhaps more in the nature of an occasional nuisance rather than a daily existential threat?…

Huawei is OK, but Xiaomi, OPPO, and Samsung are in strife. And Honor isn't living its name

Many Chinese keyboard apps, some from major handset manufacturers, can leak keystrokes to determined snoopers, leaving perhaps three quarters of a billion people at risk according to research from the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab.…

Athletics boss accused of deep-faking Baltimore school principal

Baltimore police have arrested Dazhon Leslie Darien, the former athletic director of Pikesville High School (PHS), for allegedly impersonating the school's principal using AI software to make it seem as if he made racist and antisemitic remarks.…

Cash to go out as refunds to punters

The FTC today announced it would be sending refunds totaling $5.6 million to Ring customers, paid from the Amazon subsidiary's coffers.…