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UK Introduces New Cybersecurity Laws
The UK signed new consumer protection laws into effect earlier this week. They are designed to protect against hackers and other cybersecurity concerns.
The new laws introduce a set of minimal cybersecurity standards that UK compa...
Georgia County Involved in Trump Election Case Hit by Cyberattack
Georgia’s Coffee County Board of Commissioners discovered in late April that a malicious actor had infiltrated the county’s IT systems. The county found the breach after the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CIS...
Personal Information of US Veterans Exposed in Data Leak
US Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough said on April 25 that the personally identifiable information (PII) of 15 million US veterans may have been compromised in the February cyberattack on Change Healthcare. McDonough r...
Autodesk Drive Used in Microsoft Phishing Scams
A new phishing campaign is targeting corporate users via compromised email accounts to distribute PDF files hosted on Autodesk Drive, according to cybersecurity firm Netcraft.
In the incidents reported, hackers sent out phishing e...
Chinese Spies Hacked a Belgian Parliament Member’s Laptop
The laptop of Els Van Hoof, the chairperson of the Belgian Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, was hacked by Chinese spies back in 2021, she revealed in a recent interview.
She discovered the cyber attack on her laptop 3 years...
FTC Sending Payments to Ring Customers in Settlement of Privacy Breaches
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is sending $5.6 million in payments to customers of Ring, the security devices company owned by Amazon. The payments are going to about 117,000 owners of certain types of Ring cameras, particu...
Microsoft Fixes Exploit Used By Russian Threat Actors
The tech giant, Microsoft, recently fixed a vulnerability with its Windows software that Russian-based hackers were exploiting. The threat actors answer to multiple group names, including APT 28, Forrest Blizzard, and Fancy Bear...
Surfshark VPN Releases Apple TV App
Surfshark is the newest virtual private network (VPN) provider to release an app for Apple TV. A VPN encrypts your outgoing data, ensuring that no one can view your online activities, such as the websites you visit. It also preven...
Proton Mail Introduces Dark Web Monitoring
Proton has introduced a Dark Web Monitoring tool for all of its paid users, to bolster their accounts’ security and prevent potential damage.
The Dark Web Monitoring feature, as the name suggests, actively scans the dark web for a...
‘Mass Surveillance’ Suit Filed Against SEC Over Monitoring of Stock Market Data
A new lawsuit accuses the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of unlawfully gathering data on every citizen who invests in the stock market. The lawsuit, spearheaded by the National Center for Public Policy Research, alleges...