Texas attorney general probes connected-car companies’ data privacy practices (therecord.media)
At least four car companies’ data collection and sharing practices are under investigation by the Texas attorney general’s office for potentially violating state law on deceptive trade practices, according to documents obtained by Recorded Future News....
Southeast Asian scam syndicates stealing $64 billion annually, researchers find (therecord.media)
Cyberthreat landscape permanently altered by Chinese operations, US officials say (therecord.media)
LockBit ransomware gang claims attack on Wichita as city struggles with payment issues, airport disruption (therecord.media)
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Nearly 184,000 MedStar Health patients' personal data possibly breached (therecord.media)
UK becomes first country to ban default bad passwords on IoT devices (therecord.media)
Britain now has IoT hardware standards that ban weak or easily guessable default passwords such as “admin” or “12345." Manufacturers are also required to publish contact details so users can report bugs.
Palo Alto Networks warns of zero-day in VPN product (therecord.media)
Human rights activists in Western Sahara are being targeted by mobile malware (therecord.media)
New mobile malware masquerading as a news app has been spotted targeting human rights activists associated with the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), a partially recognized state in the western part of the Sahara desert....
Attack on data analytics company Sisense prompts alert from CISA (therecord.media)
The top U.S. cybersecurity agency published a warning on Thursday morning about an attack on Sisense — which provides AI data analytics services to organizations like Philips Healthcare, Verizon, Nasdaq, Air Canada and hundreds more.
Ukrainian security service’s cyber chief suspended following media investigation (therecord.media)
OWASP Foundation warns members of data breach after discovering 1,000 resumes on Wiki server (therecord.media)
The software security nonprofit Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) said a possible data breach may affect anyone who was a member of the organization from 2006 to 2014.
Ross Anderson, professor and famed author of ‘Security Engineering,’ passes away (therecord.media)
Scottish health service says ‘focused and ongoing cyber attack’ may disrupt services (therecord.media)
Police shut more than 14,000 accounts on Mega, Tutanota and Protonmail (therecord.media)
Police shut more than 14,000 accounts on Mega, Tutanota and Protonmail (therecord.media)
Japan sees increased cyberthreats to critical infrastructure, particularly from China (therecord.media)
China-backed hackers are increasingly targeting telecom carriers, internet providers and other critical infrastructure in Japan, according to Kazutaka Nakamizo, deputy director of the country’s National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity (NISC)....
USA: Firma sprzedała dane o lokalizacji odwiedzających 600 klinik aborcyjnych grupie pro-life (therecord.media) Polish
Jak ogłosił we wtorek senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), polityczna organizacja pro-life uzyskała od brokera dane dotyczące lokalizacji telefonów komórkowych i wykorzystała je do kierowania reklam do osób, które odwiedziły 600 klinik aborcyjnych w całym kraju....
Philippine lawmakers demand briefing following China-linked cyberattack (therecord.media)
In a statement on Monday, the speaker of the Philippine’s House of Representatives, Martin Romualdez, said: “The revelation that hackers, suspected to be operating from China, have infiltrated the email systems and internal websites of various government agencies, is a matter of national security and public interest.”...
‘Significant security loophole’ found in Google software container system (therecord.media)
The issue affected Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), a system used to deploy, scale and manage how applications are “containerized.” GKE — the tech giant’s implementation of the open-source Kubernetes project — is used widely in healthcare, education, retail and financial services for data processing as well as...
How a ‘crypto drainer’ tricked people into handing over $80 million in assets worldwide (therecord.media)
Congress finds pharmacies give patient records to law enforcement without warrants (therecord.media)
Pro-Palestinian operation claims dozens of data breaches against Israeli firms (therecord.media)
Google to settle class action lawsuit alleging Incognito mode does not protect user privacy (therecord.media)
First step towards Pax Europa (therecord.media)
3,000 keyboard warriors of the Eurozone