All the headlines from our Cyber Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 25 2023 // At 9 p.m. on Sept. 22 last year, a group of City of London police officers waited outside room M15 at the Travelodge Bicester, a one-star budget hotel in Oxfordshire, England, for the right moment to bust in. On the other...
Aug 22 2023 // SentinelOne Inc., a cybersecurity company with a market value of about $5 billion, has been exploring options that could include a sale, according to people familiar with the matter.The Mountain View, California-based...
Aug 21 2023 // Tesla Inc.’s May data breach impacted more than 75,000 people, included employee-related records and was a result of “insider wrongdoing,” according to a notice posted by the office of the Maine Attorney...
Aug 21 2023 // David Drogin will lead cyber business growth in the U.S. as Mosaic Insurance‘s senior vice president, head of U.S. cyber. He will report to Global Head of Cyber Yosha DeLong.Drogin will be responsible for leading...
Aug 21 2023 // When it comes to helping high net worth (HNW) clients get optimal coverage, there’s more to it than just adding a couple of zeroes to premiums and payouts.HNW clients have different interests and concerns that...
Aug 17 2023 // Gabriella Batalha didn’t think much when she noticed she had been logged out of Instagram – until the next day when she found her account overrun with sensational posts touting high-yield cryptocurrency...
Aug 16 2023 // With cyber attacks continuing to grow and new risks emerging, The Biden-Harris Administration in July announced a cybersecurity certification and labeling program to help U.S. consumers more easily choose smart devices...
Aug 16 2023 // Nebraska Republican Congressman Don Bacon said late on Monday the FBI had warned him that his emails were hacked by Chinese spies, with both personal and campaign messages compromised.Bacon was told that the Chinese...
Aug 15 2023 // The Vermont Department of Financial Regulation reports that the large-scale data security breach of the MOVEit software has compromised the personally identifiable information of roughly 42,000 Vermonters and more than 38...
Aug 14 2023 // A US cybersecurity advisory panel will investigate malicious targeting of cloud computing environments, including Microsoft Corp.’s role in a recent breach of government officials’ email accounts by suspected...
Aug 14 2023 // The city of New Haven lost more than $6 million in multiple cyberattacks on its public school district earlier this summer and has so far managed to recoup about half of the money, officials announced last week.The thefts,...
Aug 10 2023 // In late July, a programmerat Estonia’s CoinsPaid, the world’s biggest crypto payment provider, met over video link with a recruiter who had reached out on LinkedIn with a lucrative job offer. During the...
Aug 10 2023 // Howden, the London-based insurance group, announced the launch of a blended insurance product that brings together professional indemnity, crime and cyber liability into one policy and under one limit.It brings a different...
Aug 10 2023 // The White House on Tuesday held its first-ever cybersecurity “summit” on the ransomware attacks plaguing U.S. schools, in which criminal hackers have dumped online sensitive student data, including medical...
Aug 9 2023 // Hackers were able to access UK voter registers undetected for 15 months, the Electoral Commission said, raising questions about data security even as it played down fears about the impact on elections.“Hostile...
Aug 8 2023 // A hydra-headed breach centered on a single American software maker has compromised data at about 600 organizations worldwide, according to cyber analyst tallies corroborated by Reuters.But more than two months after the...
Aug 8 2023 // Japan cannot confirm if any security information has been leaked, the top government spokesperson said on Tuesday when asked about a Washington Post report on Chinese hacking into its defense cyber networks.Chinese...
Aug 8 2023 // According to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach report, 2023 set an all-time high record with the global average data breach cost reaching $4.45 million, a 2.3% increase from 2022 and a 15.3% from 2020.The 2023 research,...
Aug 7 2023 // Investors in cyber risk solution company Resilience have contributed again – $100 million in a series D equity financing round – a testament to the company’s business model and results, its leaders said.With...
Aug 4 2023 // A Russian government-linked hacking group took aim at dozens of global organizations with a campaign to steal login credentials by engaging users in Microsoft Teams chats pretending to be from technical support, Microsoft...