Mark Young & Paul Maynard of Covington and Burling write: As the UK Government has recognized, cyber incidents—such as Jaguar Land Rover, Marks and Spencer, Royal Mail and the British Library—are costing UK businesses billions annually and causing severe disruption. The Government recognizes that cybersecurity is a critical enabler of economic growth (“we cannot have growth…
December 23, Nashville – A federal indictment returned last week and unsealed on Friday charges Jamestown pharmacist Philip Hall, 48, with 9 counts of Health Care Fraud and 6 counts of Aggravated Identity Theft, announced Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee Thomas J. Jaworski. According to the indictment, Hall was a licensed…
Waqas reports: TeleMessage SGNL, a made-in-Israel clone of the Signal app used by US government agencies and regulated businesses, has been found running with an outdated configuration that exposes sensitive internal data to the internet, no login required. The main cause of the problem is how some deployments of TeleMessage SGNL are using older versions…
Sergiu Gatlan reports another reminder of the insider threat: American cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has confirmed that an insider shared screenshots taken on internal systems with hackers after they were leaked on Telegram by the Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters threat actors. However, the company noted that its systems were not breached as a result of this incident……
A multinational law enforcement operation has resulted in the takedown of an online cybercrime syndicate that offered services to threat actors to ensure that their malicious software stayed undetected from security software. To that effect, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said it seized four domains and their associated server facilitated the crypting service on…
The European Network and Information Security Agency, ENISA, has compiled a list of existing initiatives focused on finding and preventing software vulnerabilities.
Jonathan Greig reports: More than 70 countries signed the landmark UN Convention against Cybercrime in Hanoi this weekend, a significant step in the yearslong effort to create a global mechanism to counteract digital crime. The U.K. and European Union joined China, Russia, Brazil, Nigeria and dozens of other nations in signing the convention, which lays out new……
