Sophos Acquires Secureworks

DataBreaches has signed the letter, too, and encourages others to sign it. The administration’s attempts to censor honest reporting just because it disagrees with their political agenda and revenge campaign must stop. April 28 – SAN FRANCISCO – The Trump Administration must cease its politically motivated investigation of former U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency…

Back in 2016-2018 when threat actors known as thedarkoverlord (“TDO”) were hacking entities and attempting to extort their victims by sending them emails with details about their family members and threats of what would happen if the victims didn’t pay up, a man in Meridian Idaho who called himself “Lifelock” or “Studemaster” was doing the……

Gabriela Kennedy, Joanna K.C. Wong, and Roslie Liu of Mayer|Brown write: On 1 January 2026, the Office of the Commissioner of Critical Infrastructure (Computer-system Security) issued a Code of Practice (the “CoP”) under the Protection of Critical Infrastructures (Computer Systems) Ordinance (Cap. 653) (the “Ordinance”), which came into force on the same day (see our……

In a recent interview with Rachel Klugman Seeger of North Country Communications, she raised the question of how the current administration’s closures of six HHS regional offices would affect HHS OCR’s investigations into HIPAA breaches.  It was a great question, so DataBreaches put the following questions to HHS OCR:  (1) How many breach investigators have……

“Information… has not been confirmed.” — Victim “Hold my beer.” — Hacker Daryna Antoniuk reports: Hackers have leaked flight records allegedly belonging to the CEO of the Russian airline Aeroflot following a major cyberattack that grounded flights, as Moscow denies any data breach occurred. Russia’s internet watchdog Roskomnadzor said there was no confirmation that data had been leaked from…

Bill Toulas reports: A security researcher discovered a flaw in Cloudflare’s content delivery network (CDN), which could expose a person’s general location by simply sending them an image on platforms like Signal and Discord. While the geo-locating capability of the attack is not precise enough for street-level tracking, it can provide enough data to infer what…