Indian Union Home Minister Amit Shah says the government has completed setting up the infrastructure for the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems. But Shah's report says that only 2% of all cybercrime complaints were fully registered by police as first information reports.
Lisa Sotto, partner and chair of the global privacy and cybersecurity practice at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, joins three ISMG editors to discuss important cybersecurity and privacy issues, including how U.S. enterprises are harmonizing three disparate privacy laws, and ransomware preparedness.
The Department of Justice says it's thwarted a Sony Group insider who allegedly embezzled $154 million, converted the proceeds to bitcoin, and demanded a ransom payment to return the money. Authorities say the former Sony employee has been criminally charged in Japan.
Two healthcare sector entities are in the process of notifying a total of nearly 750,000 individuals of recent hacks compromising patients' protected health information. Separately, regulators have issued HIPAA guidance pertaining to PHI disclosures involving "extreme risk" and firearms.
A federal grand jury has handed down a superseding indictment expanding the charges filed against Joe Sullivan, the former CSO of Uber, for his allegedly covering up a 2016 data breach at the ride-sharing service from authorities and paying "hush money" to two hackers. Sullivan denies the charges.
Federal authorities have issued an advisory warning about remotely exploitable security vulnerabilities in certain Fresenius Kabi infusion pump systems that could allow an attacker to gain access to sensitive information, modify settings, or perform arbitrary actions as an authenticated user.
Michael Lines is working with Information Security Media Group to promote awareness of the need for cyber risk management, and as a part of that initiative, the CyberEdBoard will post draft chapters from his upcoming book, "Heuristic Risk Management: Be Aware, Get Prepared, Defend Yourself." This post's chapter is...
The spyware of sanctioned Israeli firm NSO Group was reportedly detected on the smartphones of high-profile Polish figures associated with the nation's opposition party. And the spyware has also reportedly been tied to the phone of Hanan Elatr, wife of the late journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Cyber GRX senior director and CyberEdBoard executive member Peter Gregory discusses data everyone has that is an asset, but also a liability - your contact list - and how to decrease your chances of it turning toxic.
An Indian joint parliamentary committee has reintroduced set penalties for data violations after yielding to opposition demands. Some cyber law experts still believe it is unlikely organizations will be heavily penalized owing to deficiencies in the country's legal procedures.
A top U.S. Department of the Treasury official said financial regulators are prepared to extend existing authorities to rein in stablecoins, although Treasury officials hope instead that Congress will move on key legislation to regulate the space.
As the final days of 2021 near, healthcare entities in and outside the U.S. continue to deal with systems disruptions and major data breaches involving ransomware and other cyberattacks. The latest includes a hospital for women and infants in Ireland and a large specialty medical practice in Texas.
In an emergency directive issued on Friday regarding the explosive Apache Log4j vulnerabilities, CISA has required federal civilian departments and agencies to assess their internet-facing network assets and immediately patch the systems or implement appropriate mitigation measures.
Six U.S. senators sent a letter to the Treasury Dept. regarding new cryptocurrency regulation stemming from the infrastructure bill. The lawmakers urge Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to address concerns around the law, which requires a broad group of professionals to report information to the IRS.
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