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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...

Senior managers in UK and US companies are routinely exposing their organization to cyber-threats with more risky device and password management practices than their junior colleagues, according to OneLogin. The identity and access management (IAM) provider polled 2000 remote workers in both...

North Korea’s offensive cyber-program evolved from one of power projection to one which is “dual-focused” and going after international economic targets. Speaking at Black Hat Europe 2020, Crowdstrike researchers Jason Rivera and Josh Burgess discussed how North Korea had advanced its strategy...

Identity and access management will be crucial to securing workforces going forward, according to a panel speaking of experts during the Wallix Live: The State of Security event. The speakers acknowledged the “herculean” effort of many organizations to successfully roll out mass remote working...

Email defense provider Vade Secure has announced the appointment of former Israeli military staff sergeant Maya Gershon as its new chief revenue officer. Gershon is an electrical and computer engineering graduate who started her career working at Unit 8200, a top-secret and classified...

The Cyber Helpline, a volunteer organization that offers emergency assistance to victims of cybercrime and cyber-stalking in the UK, has been awarded £10,000 in lottery funding. The group said the money will be used to support its helpline and chatbox services, with demand rising rapidly due to...

Internet-connected MySQL databases around the world are being targeted by a double extortion ransomware campaign that researchers have dubbed PLEASE_READ_ME. The campaign, which dates back to at least January 2020, was detected by researchers at Guardicore Labs. So far, it has breached more...

An American healthcare provider has started notifying more than a million patients that their data may have been exposed as the result of a cyber-attack. Dental Care Alliance discovered on October 11 that it had been the victim of a hack that began on September 18, 2020. The company, which is...

An unnamed individual in the United States has pleaded guilty to creating a botnet and using it to launch a series of cyber-attacks against the gaming community before reaching their 18th birthday. The Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, carried out in October 2016, caused what the...

A UK business specializing in tax relief for its clients has exposed the personal details of over 100,000 of them via a misconfigured content management system (CMS). Researchers at Website Planet told Infosecurity exclusively about the privacy snafu, which they discovered on October 13 and...