The information security chief for SolarWinds says the world needs tough cybersecurity laws. Tim Brown made this case in an interview Sunday (Sept. 29) with the Financial Times (FT), his first since a federal court dismissed much of a federal lawsuit against him. Brown was...
These days, data is big business. It makes sense then, that ransomware attacks in which data is stolen or encrypted is a big modern category of crime. In fact, the ransomware threat is so significant that Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said...
Microsoft has been hacked as part of what officials say could be a Russian campaign that hit multiple U.S. government agencies, Reuters reports. The attack happened, according to experts, when the culprits took advantage of software from SolarWinds Corp., sources told Reuters. On Sunday (Dec....
Reports of widespread cyberattacks on several U.S. government agency websites have sent shockwaves throughout the country and the world, raising concerns about the ability of any institution to protect its vital and confidential data. The thinking goes that if the U.S. Treasury and Commerce departments...
October 22, 2024
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged four current and former public companies with making misleading cyber disclosures. The agency alleged that Avaya Holdings, Check Point Software Technologies, Mimecast and Unisys minimized a cybersecurity incident in their public disclosures after learning that a threat actor had accessed their systems without authorization, the SEC said […]
September 29, 2024
The information security chief for SolarWinds says the world needs tough cybersecurity laws. Tim Brown made this case in an interview Sunday (Sept. 29) with the Financial Times (FT), his...
December 18, 2020
Microsoft has been hacked as part of what officials say could be a Russian campaign that hit multiple U.S. government agencies, Reuters reports. The attack happened, according to experts, when...
December 13, 2020
Attacks by hackers linked to the Russian government against the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the U.S. Department of Commerce and its National Telecommunications and Information Administration unit discovered Friday...
