On May 23, the U.S. Department of Justice, joined by 29 state attorneys general and the District of Columbia, sued Live Nation Entertainment and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Ticketmaster, for violating the Sherman Antitrust Act. In his prepared remarks, Attorney General Garland said In recent years, Live Nation-Ticketmaster’s exorbitant fees and technological failures have been criticized…
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Cops Are Just Trolling Cybercriminals Now
Matt Burgess reports: Russian cybercriminals are almost untouchable. For years, hackers based in the country have launched devastating ransomware attacks against hospitals, critical infrastructure, and businesses, causing billions in losses. But they’re out of reach of Western law enforcement and largely ignored by the Russian authorities. When police do take the criminals’ servers and websites offline, they’re often…
Japan Man Arrested for Creating Virus Using Generative AI Systems; ‘I Thought I Could Do Anything if I Asked AI’
The Yomiuri Shimbun reports: A 25-year-old unemployed man from Kawasaki has been arrested for allegedly creating a computer virus by using interactive generative artificial intelligence available online. This is believed to be the first case in the nation related to the creation of viruses using generative AI systems. The Metropolitan Police Department arrested Ryuki Hayashi…
Optus fails to keep report into cyber attack out of class action
It has not happened often, but now another court has held that a breached entity cannot protect an investigation into a breach by declaring it legally privileged. Naomi Neilson reports: The Australian Federal Court has ruled that Optus will not be able to keep a report it commissioned from professional services firm Deloitte regarding its…
Sav-Rx notifies 2.8 million patients of October 2023 data breach
A&A Services, which does business as Sav-Rx, is notifying 2,812,336 patients of a hacking incident in October 2023. According to its submissions to the California and Maine attorneys general, Sav-Rx detected an interruption to their network on October 8, 2023. By the next day, their IT systems were restored and prescriptions were shipped on time…
Notice of Security Incident – The New Yorker
The New Yorker decided to make fun of security incident notices in a piece by Jay Katsir. From the notice’s “What Happened?” section: In or around November or February, 2018/24, we detected suspicious activity within our system. It was not like in the movies, where a big red “ALERT” message flashes onscreen, but there was…