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An American healthcare provider is proposing to resolve a lawsuit filed on behalf of victims of a 2019 data breach with a $4.2m settlement. Kalispell Regional Healthcare, based in Montana, announced in October last year that a data breach had occurred. Approximately 130,000 patients had their...

Legislation to enhance federal criminal penalties for adults convicted of cyber-stalking children has been passed to America's President Donald Trump for signature. The Combat Online Predators Act seeks to amend the federal criminal code to increase the maximum prison term for a stalking...

A cyber-stalker from Arizona who joined up with a neo-Nazi group to harass and threaten journalists, advocates, and other targets has been sentenced to prison. Johnny Roman Garza admitted to conspiring with other members of the Atomwaffen Division to deliver menacing messages to journalists...

The company at the center of revelations over a widespread Russian information-stealing campaign has said that fewer than 18,000 of its global customers were affected. SolarWinds produces popular software that helps organizations manage their IT networks and infrastructure. However, it was...

The UK government will introduce an Online Safety Bill next year which could result in fines higher than the GDPR for companies that allow illegal content to be posted on their platforms. The plans are nominally aimed at protecting children online by banning things like terrorist content, child...

Spotify has been forced to issue a password reset for users after admitting that their information was exposed to some of the firm’s third-party business partners. The music streaming giant said in a customer data breach notification sent to the California attorney general that the privacy...

Current and likely future cyber-attack trends were highlighted by Sarah Armstrong-Smith, chief security advisor, Microsoft Cybersecurity Solutions Group (UK) during the BankSec 2020 virtual conference. Through its analysis, Microsoft found that phishing and business email compromise (BEC)...

Government agencies have issued warnings about the fresh spate of attacks, apparently from nation-state actors against major security vendors. Last week FireEye disclosed that it had spotted an attack from nation state actors looking for data on government clients, where attackers were able to...

Over 45 million medical imaging files are freely accessible on unprotected servers, according to a new investigation by CybelAngel. The researchers discovered that a huge range of sensitive medical images, including X-rays and CT scans, can be accessed without the requirement for a username...

Cybercrime is becoming increasingly dangerous to organizations and individuals alike, according to Chief Supt. Andrew Gould, national cybercrime programme lead at the National Police Chiefs’ Council speaking during the BankSec 2020 virtual conference. One reason for this is that cybercrime is...

Almost three-quarters of businesses admit that tracking of customer data happens, but without consent. According to research from Zoho Corp, a survey of 1400 business leaders about third party ad tracking found 100% of respondents said their companies allow it, and 57% are “comfortable” or...

Twitter has been fined over half a million dollars for violating European Union data protection laws in the first EU-wide privacy case. The EU's chief data watchdog today announced that it has issued an administrative fine of 450,000 euros ($547,000) to the social media titan for being too...

A hospital in California has notified 67,000 patients that their personal data may have been exposed in a cyber-attack. In a letter dated December 8, Sonoma Valley Hospital told patients that it was one of several American healthcare providers victimized two months ago in a wide-sweeping...

An Ohio man has admitted to conspiring with his spouse to steal scientific trade secrets from a children's hospital and sell them to the People's Republic of China. Former Dublin resident Yu Zhou and his 47-year-old wife, Li Chen, confessed to establishing a company in China to personally...

The past 12 months have seen a record number of CVEs published by the US authorities, the fourth year in a row volumes have risen. As of December 15, the number of vulnerabilities in production code discovered and assigned a CVE number by the US-CERT Vulnerability Database, topped the 2019...

Some IT leaders in the UK expect to be replaced in their jobs by artificial intelligence within the next ten years, according to new research by cloud security provider Trend Micro. Researchers interviewed 500 IT directors and managers, CIOs, and CTOs about what kinds of threats they reckon...

Critical vulnerabilities have been found in over a hundred different GE Healthcare imaging and ultrasound products commonly used at hospitals throughout the USA. If exploited, the vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to gain access to sensitive personal health information (PHI), alter data...

A man from Texas, charged in January with cyber-stalking realtors across the United States, has been indicted for capital murder in the deaths of two women. Andy Castillo was arrested on January 6 for allegedly cyber-stalking as many as 100 realtors in up to 22 different states. The...

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has suffered a cyber-attack which led to the compromise of documents related to the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, currently being deployed in the UK. The agency itself only issued a very brief statement, saying it could not provide more details while an...

Security researchers have uncovered a massive Instagram click farm in central Asia, operating tens of thousands of fake profiles. A team at vpnMentor found the operation thanks to a completely unsecured Elasticsearch database it was using, connected to the public-facing internet. “The click...