Defendant conspired to use stolen taxpayer information to file over 1,000 fraudulent tax returns seeking millions of dollars in tax refunds BOSTON – A Nigerian national living in Mexico, who was extradited to the United States, was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for his role in a scheme to break into Massachusetts tax…
Gartner® doesn’t create new categories lightly. Generally speaking, a new acronym only emerges when the industry’s collective “to-do list” has become mathematically impossible to complete. And so it seems that the introduction of the Exposure Assessment Platforms (EAP) category is a formal admission that traditional Vulnerability Management (VM) is no longer a viable way to…
A research project into vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft’s PlayReady DRM raises some questions on responsible disclosure. The post Microsoft DRM Hacking Raises Questions on Vulnerability Disclosures appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A new variant of the Snake Keylogger malware is being used to actively target Windows users located in China, Turkey, Indonesia, Taiwan, and Spain. Fortinet FortiGuard Labs said the new version of the malware has been behind over 280 million blocked infection attempts worldwide since the start of the year. “Typically delivered through phishing emails…
Cybercriminals who hacked Rhode Island’s system for health and benefits programs have released files to a site on the dark web, The post Rhode Islanders’ Data Was Leaked From a Cyberattack on State Health Benefits Website appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Exposed database backups discovered and reported by researcher @JayelTee are now being reported in more mainstream news after OrthoMinds issued a press about the incident. Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports: A vendor of cloud-based orthodontic practice software is notifying an undisclosed number of patients that their data was exposed to the internet for 10 days last…
Corey Levitan reports: A teenage boy suspected of involvement in the 2023 cyberattacks that disrupted the two largest Las Vegas casino companies has surrendered to authorities, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD). The suspect, whose name has not been released due to his status as a minor, is currently being held at……
