Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira sentenced to 15 years in prison

Jack Teixeira, a member of the Massachusetts National Guard, has been jailed for 15 years for leaking classified documents about the war in Ukraine and other military secrets. A federal judge in Boston, United States, on Tuesday sentenced the 22-year-old Read More …

Hackers breach sensitive government and police data in Italy

Prosecutors in Milan have uncovered a network of hackers and former law enforcement officials accused of using malware and insider contacts to break into several government databases, including the Interior Ministry. The group allegedly accessed over 800,000 confidential records, even Read More …

How did a ‘bank snooping’ scandal ensnare politicians in Italy?

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is at the centre of a “snooping scandal” in which a bank branch employee at Italy’s biggest bank is alleged to have illegally accessed and “spied on” thousands of private accounts. A clerk at Banca Read More …

2024 U.S. Federal Elections: The Insider Threat

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in coordination with the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) prepared this overview to help Read More …

How to Recognize and Defend Against Malicious Insider Threats

Insider threats arise from careless users, users with compromised credentials, or users who seek to cause harm intentionally. The latter type of user—the malicious insider—can be the most daunting for security teams to manage. It requires them to analyze a Read More …

UK: The Princess of Wales’s hospital data breach not referred to police due to suspected ‘decoy’ plan

The Princess of Wales’s hospital data breach has not been referred to police as an expert explains that a “decoy” plan could have been in use – meaning her actual medical files were not accessed by the perpetrators. Despite Health Read More …

Microsoft employees exposed internal passwords in security lapse

Microsoft has resolved a security lapse that exposed internal company files and credentials to the open internet. Security researchers Can Yoleri, Murat Özfidan and Egemen Koçhisarlı with SOCRadar, a cybersecurity company that helps organizations find security weaknesses, discovered an open Read More …

British authorities investigating the Princess of Wales medical records breach

British authorities said Wednesday they are investigating a possible breach of the medical records of Catherine, Princess of Wales. The Information Commissioners Office said the inquiries follow a “breach report” it had received. “We can confirm that we have received Read More …

U.S. Army Intelligence Analyst Arrested and Charged with Conspiracy to Obtain and Disclose National Defense Information

Korbein Schultz, a U.S. Army soldier and intelligence analyst, was arrested today at Fort Campbell following an indictment by a federal grand jury charging him with conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense information, exporting technical data related to defense Read More …