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A 50-year-old mom from Pennsylvania has been arrested after allegedly using deepfake technology to tarnish the reputations her daughter's cheerleading rivals. Raffaela Marie Spone, of Chalfont, Bucks County, is accused of using technological trickery to make videos that appear to show members...

Police in India have arrested 34 people for allegedly impersonating Apple and McAfee employees to con foreign nationals out of their money. The defendants were detained during a March 20 raid on two fake call centers located in the same building in Uttam Nagar, a mostly residential area in...

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and ISACA have announced the availability of the first credential for auditing the security of cloud security systems. The introduction of the Certificate of Cloud Auditing Knowledge (CCAK) comes amid a huge surge in the adoption of the cloud in the past year...

Canadian cybersecurity firm Herjavec Group has been appointed as the Official Cybersecurity Services Provider to Formula 1. The group's newest gig was announced yesterday. Herjavec will support the world's most prestigious motor racing competition and annual sporting series in three critical...

Leveraging AI to undertake investigations of suspicious activities could significantly increase security teams’ abilities to protect their organizations from cyber-attacks, according to Andrew Tsonchev, director of technology, Darktrace, speaking during the Infosecurity Magazine Online Summit...

A Pennsylvania medical center and its legal services provider are facing a class-action lawsuit over a data breach that exposed the protected health information (PHI) of more than 36,000 patients. The breach occurred last year when hackers gained access to several email accounts belonging to...

An IT contractor who carried out a retaliatory cyber-attack after being fired for underperforming has been sent to prison. Indian national Deepanshu Kher was hired by an American IT consulting firm in 2017. The firm sent Kher to the headquarters of a company in Carlsbad, California, to assist...

The approach organizations should take to develop and maintain an effective DevSecOps culture were highlighted by Patrick Debois, director of market strategy at Snyk during a session at the Infosecurity Magazine Online Summit EMEA 2021. Debois firstly emphasized the importance of an...

A leading IoT manufacturer has been forced to halt production of devices after suffering a major ransomware attack. In a statement issued yesterday, Sierra Wireless claimed the attack struck over the weekend, on March 20. “The company’s website and other internal operations have also been...

Over 20TB of sensitive customer data has been accidentally leaked online by a popular online trading broker, after it misconfigured a cloud database. Researchers at reviews site WizCase spotted the Elasticsearch server left wide open without any encryption or password protection. They quickly...

The founder of a privacy centric email and VPN service has hit out at Apple for putting profits before human rights. Andy Yen is the CEO of Proton Technologies, which produces the ProtonMail and ProtonVPN offerings. He argues that the services were created in part to enable activists...

British clothing retailer FatFace is facing a mounting storm of criticism for its handling of a “sophisticated criminal attack” which led to the compromise of customers’ personal data (PII). In an email to customers posted by HaveIGotPwned? founder Troy Hunt this week, the firm revealed that...

Speaking at the Spring Infosecurity Magazine Online Summit, Sean Poris, director, product security at Verizon Media, explored how to run a bug bounty program, outlining the six components of a successful big bounty structure. Poris explained that, by investing in bug bounties, organizations are...

Half of UK businesses reported cyber-skills gaps last year, with diversity still woefully lacking in most organizations, according to the latest government figures. The DCMS-sponsored Cybersecurity skills in the UK labour market 2021 report was compiled from representative surveys of security...

Nearly two-thirds of medium and large-sized businesses suffered a cyber-attack or breach last year, with security efforts suffering during the pandemic, according to the latest government figures. The Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2021 on the face of it showed a slight improvement over last...

Attacks on industrial control system (ICS) computers went up by .85 percentage points in H2 of 2020 compared to H1, according to new research from Kaspersky. The analysis also found that the variety of malware families targeting ICS computers increased by 30% in this period, with...

The website of insurance giant CNA is out of action following a cyber-attack that took place over the weekend. Visitors to the website of the Chicago-based firm are greeted with a notice explaining that threat actors have disrupted the company's network. In a statement released Tuesday...

McAfee has announced a partnership with London South East Colleges in a bid to provide students with insights into working in the cybersecurity industry. The initiative is part of efforts to encourage younger people to pursue a career cybersecurity and address the skills gap in the sector...

A Plano resident has been sent to prison for his part in a multimillion-dollar fraud and money-laundering scheme that victimized school districts, charities, and senior citizens. In October last year, Babatope Joseph Aderinoye was found guilty of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, wire fraud...

Suspected Russian hackers managed to access the emails of Donald Trump’s last Department of Homeland Security (DHS) chief, in an intelligence coup for the Kremlin, according to a new report. AP spoke to more than a dozen current and former US officials to discover more about the impact of the...