From VitalLaw’s weekly roundup of privacy and cybersecurity legislation: Augmented data broker, data breach requirements advance in California. The California state Assembly Appropriations Committee voted on July 9 to pass a bill that would require data brokers in the state to disclose additional information regarding their data-collection practices. S.B. 361, Reg Sess., would, if enacted, require data…
John Beauge reports: Personal information including Social Security numbers may be at risk as the result of unauthorized access and acquisition of data stored on a Pennsylvania county’s computer network. “We determined that the cyber criminals took certain data from our network, which included personally identifiable information,” the Union County commissioners revealed Friday. “The affected…
It’s not enough to be secure. In today’s legal climate, you need to prove it. Whether you’re protecting a small company or managing compliance across a global enterprise, one thing is clear: cybersecurity can no longer be left to guesswork, vague frameworks, or best-effort intentions. Regulators and courts are now holding organizations accountable for how…
In November 2022, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (“AIIMS“) reportedly suffered a ransomware attack. They may have just escaped another incident thanks to the responsible disclosure of a vulnerability found by a researcher. Ashish Khaitan reports: A critical vulnerability in the AIIMS portal exposed highly sensitive data of voluntary organ and tissue donors…
American Addiction Centers says the personal information of more than 422,000 people was stolen in a data breach. The post American Addiction Centers Data Breach Impacts 422,000 People appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Ever since law enforcement announced the arrest of an administrator of the XSS.is forum, forum members watched threads disappear from the site, and then a seizure notice splash screen appeared. No administrator or moderator had made any statement about the arrest or situation despite pleas from forum members for some clarification, and attempts to discuss…
Following on from our preview, here’s the full rundown on LLM salting: a novel countermeasure against LLM jailbreaks, developed by AI researchers at Sophos X-Ops
