Joe Uchill reports: At a joint hearing of the House Oversight and Homeland Security Committee about the SolarWinds-related espionage campaign, Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said that he and Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I., are working on legislation to require companies to notify the federal government after similar breaches. The Friday House hearing was the second hearing of…
Author: Dissent
New tool reveals security and privacy issues with contact tracing apps
COVIDGuardian, the first automated security and privacy assessment tool, tests contact tracing apps for potential threats such as malware, embedded trackers and private information leakage. Using the COVIDGuardian tool, cybersecurity experts assessed 40 Covid-19 contact tracing apps that have been employed worldwide for potential privacy and security threats. Their findings include that: 72.5 per cent…
Members of Identity Theft Ring Plead Guilty to Fraud Targeting Virginia ABC Stores
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – Two Norfolk men pleaded guilty on February 26 to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft as part of a scheme to purchase alcohol for resale from Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority (ABC) stores with stolen credit, debit, and pre-paid gift card numbers. According to court documents, Dion Melton,…
Ryuk ransomware now self-spreads to other Windows LAN devices
While French news outlets have been reporting on ransomware attacks there, they have been relatively quiet on the type of ransomware or details of attacks, other than an occasional mention of Ryuk. Now Sergiu Gatlan reports: A new Ryuk ransomware variant with worm-like capabilities that allow it to spread to other devices on victims’ local…
Volunteers of America Chesapeake & Carolinas Notice of Security Incident
This morning’s reminder that it’s not just HIPAA covered entities or business associates that may be exposing your medical information to a breach. Volunteers of America Chesapeake & Carolinas (“VOACC”) announced today a phishing email incident that involved a small number of email accounts in its computer environment. The phishing email incident resulted in unauthorized access to…
DRM Screws People Yet Again: Book DRM Data Breach Exposes Reporters’ Emails And Passwords
Mike Masnick writes: I have a few different services that report to me if my email is found in various data breaches, and recently I was notified that multiple email addresses of mine showed up in a leak of the service NetGalley. NetGalley, if you don’t know, is a DRM service for books, that is…