Agri-Food Sector Under Increasing Threat From Cyber Attacks

As the agri-food sector increasingly embraces automation with GPS, robotic systems, cloud-connected devices, and AI-driven tools to boost efficiency and crop yields, cyber risks have been rapidly escalating. With ransomware attacks as the primary threat, the food and agriculture sector Read More …

“Simply staggering” surveillance conducted by social media and streaming services, FTC finds

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a report that examines the data collection and use practices of major social media and video streaming services, finding that the companies engaged in vast surveillance of consumers in order to monetize their Read More …

Cyber attack on city of Wichita limited to police records, internal investigation finds

A ransomware attack that crippled the city of Wichita’s network for more than a month starting in May was limited to a Wichita Police Department records system, city officials said Wednesday. That means the Russian hacker group — LockBit — Read More …

Court-Authorized Operation Disrupts Worldwide Botnet Used by People’s Republic of China State-Sponsored Hackers

The Justice Department today announced a court-authorized law enforcement operation that disrupted a botnet consisting of more than 200,000 consumer devices in the United States and worldwide. As described in court documents unsealed in the Western District of Pennsylvania, the Read More …

AT&T to pay $13 million to settle FCC probe over cloud data breach

AT&T has agreed to pay $13 million to settle a federal investigation into whether the mobile phone service provider failed to protect customer information in connection with a data breach last year, the Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday. The FCC’s Read More …

TikTok just had the most important two hours of its life

Who really controls TikTok’s magical algorithm — the US-based company that runs the app or its Chinese parent, ByteDance? That’s the question that bedeviled a trio of federal judges on Monday charged with deciding whether to allow the implementation of Read More …

Facebook, X rush to delete Trump attacker Ryan Wesley Routh from social media

Social media companies including Meta’s Facebook and Elon Musk-owned X (formerly Twitter) are rushing to delete the pages associated with Ryan Wesley Routh from their platforms. While X has removed Routh’s profile from its platform, Facebook has removed all the Read More …

Chinese-made cargo equipment enables cyber, espionage risks in US ports

A year-long probe led by GOP members of two House panels found that numerous seaports around the U.S. contain technology originating from Chinese manufacturers that could enable espionage and sabotage. The study conducted by lawmakers and staff on the House Read More …

Thousands of US medical professionals have data exposed in major data breach

Researchers have found a database backup belonging to Florida-based recruitment company MNA Healthcare left unsecured online, leaving the details of thousands of workers open to anyone. The company offers staffing services for healthcare workers and matches them with hospitals and Read More …

Nearly 1M Medicare beneficiaries potentially affected after data breach

Nearly 1 million Medicare beneficiaries are being warned that their personal information may have been compromised in a cybersecurity incident last year. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation (WPS), the contractor that Read More …