TracFone will pay $16 million to settle FCC data breach investigation

Following three separate data breaches between 2021 and 2023 which exposed the proprietary information (PI) of TracFone Wireless customers, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that the Verizon-owned company has agreed to pay a $16 million civil penalty to settle Read More …

Dark Web Shows Cybercriminals Ready for Olympics. Are You?

Major sporting events like the World Cup, Super Bowl, and Wimbledon attract millions, even billions, of viewers. Argentina’s shootout win over France in the final game of the Qatar 2022 World Cup reached a global audience of 1.5 billion viewers. And Read More …

Disney faces potential data breach, hacker group claims massive leak

The Walt Disney Company is reeling from a suspected cyberattack by a hacktivist group calling itself NullBulge, exposing a significant amount of sensitive information. NullBulge announced its exploit on 12 July on both the cybercrime forum Breach Forums and X/Twitter. Read More …

AI, cyber-attacks and amateur experiments threaten to upend global biosecurity, WHO warns

Artificial intelligence, cyber-attacks and genetic engineering could pose potentially catastrophic biosecurity threats to countries around the world, the WHO has warned. Rapid technological advances in the past decade have “redefined the biological threat landscape” and heightened risks of manipulation, the Read More …

Allies agree new NATO Integrated Cyber Defence Centre

The NATO Integrated Cyber Defence Centre (NICC) will enhance the protection of NATO and Allied networks and the use of cyberspace as an operational domain. The Centre will inform NATO military commanders on possible threats and vulnerabilities in cyberspace, including Read More …

July Patch Tuesday Unleashes a Torrent of Updates

With the information security industry’s two largest conferences (Black Hat Briefings and Def Con) set to happen in less than a month, Microsoft pulled out all the stops and, for July, nearly tripled the number of patches they released in Read More …

How to Prevent Email Spoofing with DMARC

Email-based attacks are the number one attack vector for cybercriminals. These attacks do not always require a high level of technical sophistication to carry out. And because the human factor is involved, there is almost no doubt they will endure Read More …

NHS remains vulnerable to further cyber-attacks

A leading cybersecurity expert has warned that the NHS remains vulnerable to further cyber-attacks unless it updates its computer systems. This stark assessment comes in the wake of a major ransomware attack that has severely disrupted healthcare services across London. Read More …

New cyberattack targets iPhone Apple IDs

A new cyberattack is targeting iPhone users, with criminals attempting to obtain individuals’ Apple IDs in a “phishing” campaign, security software company Symantec said in an alert Monday. Cyber criminals are sending text messages to iPhone users in the U.S. Read More …