We previously reported on the unfortunate data breach suffered by 23andMe last month and its implications. We never imagined how horrible it could be.
According to an October 6, 2023, posting by Wired earlier that week, hackers involved with the 23andMe breach posted “an initial data sample on the platform BreachForums…claiming that it contained 1
Resilience issued its Midyear 2023 Claims Report, which is well worth the read.
In addition to commenting on the impact of the MOVEit incident, some of the key findings include:
According to a press release, Personal Touch, a home health company located on Long Island, has reached a settlement with New York Attorney General Letitia James for $350,000 for a data breach that occurred in January of 2021 when a Personal Touch employee “opened a malware-infected file attached to a phishing email that allowed
Axios is reporting that the White House will unveil an executive order on artificial intelligence (AI) at an event scheduled on Monday, October 30, 2023, at 2:30 EST.
The subject matter of the executive order will concentrate on “safe, secure and trustworthy artificial intelligence” usage. We will summarize the AI executive order next week after
If you didn’t get to watch “60 Minutes” on Sunday and see the “Five Eyes” warn us all about China, put it on your list to watch soon.
The Five Eyes are the intelligence leaders of five allied countries: U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, and New Zealand. I have never seen all five together before and
The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), FBI, and MS-ISAC recently released an urgent Joint Advisory on the Atlassian Confluence Vulnerability CVE-2023-22515.
According to the Alert, “this critical vulnerability affects certain versions of Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server, enabling malicious threat actors to obtain initial access to Confluence instances by creating unauthorized Confluence administrator
On October 12, 2023, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) issued an Alert to the healthcare industry about a “new threat actor and ransomware,” NoEscape, which is threatening health care organizations.
According to the Alert, the cybercriminals behind NoEscape “have constructed their malware and its associated infrastructure entirely from scratch.” Offering Ransomware-as-a-Service, they
The writers’ strike included the concern that artificial intelligence (AI) would put writers out of business. According to one writer, David Vuijsje, “[T]he creative industry stands at a crossroads where technology and human creativity must learn to coexist harmoniously.” He muses that provisions in the new agreement between Hollywood and its writers “sets a
Credit reporting agencies TransUnion, Experian, and Equifax have extended their programs to provide consumers with the ability to access their credit reports for free on a weekly, rather than yearly, basis.
The Fair Credit Reporting Act legally requires credit reporting agencies to provide consumers with access to their credit report for free once per year
The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory on October 11, 2023, urging companies (particularly those in the critical infrastructure sector) to take steps to mitigate cyber threats for AvosLocker Ransomware.
The Advisory urges companies to: