Cindy Cohn of EFF writes: When a company that collected your personal data negligently fails to secure it, you should have accountability and relief—including standing to sue. EFF and our friends at Electronic Privacy Information Center filed an amicus brief in late November pointing this out to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in…
Category: Business Sector
Rackspace’s costs to deal with ransomware attack top $10 million
Eric Killelea reports: Rackspace Technology Inc. spent $10.8 million on expenses related to a ransomware attack in December that blocked thousands of customers from accessing their emails and related data, according to regulatory filings. The San Antonio-based cloud computing company paid for costs to “investigate and remediate, legal and other professional services, and supplemental staff resources that…
Lapsus$: court finds teenagers carried out hacking spree
Joe Tidy reports: A court has found an 18-year-old from Oxford was a part of an international cyber-crime gang responsible for a hacking spree against major tech firms Arion Kurtaj was a key member of the Lapsus$ group which hacked the likes of Uber, Nvidia and Rockstar Games. A court heard Kurtaj leaked clips of…
Ransomware Attack on CloudNordic paralyzes company and customers
The following is a machine translation of a report by Jens E. Hummelmose: On Friday, August 18, 2023, CloudNordic, a leading provider of cloud services, fell victim to a serious ransomware attack. The hackers took control of all systems, resulting in extensive downtime and data loss for both the company and their customers. The attack…
New Chrome Feature Alerts Users About Malicious Extensions
Alessandro Mascellino reports: Google has announced an update set to be introduced in Chrome 117. This new feature aims to proactively inform users when an extension they have installed is no longer available on the Chrome Web Store. The move comes as part of the tech giant’s ongoing commitment to enhance security measures within its…
A New Supply Chain Attack Hit Close to 100 Victims—and Clues Point to China
Andy Greenberg reports: Every software supply chain attack, in which hackers corrupt a legitimate application to push out their malware to hundreds or potentially thousands of victims, represents a disturbing new outbreak of a cybersecurity scourge. But when that supply chain attack is pulled off by a mysterious group of hackers, abusing a Microsoft trusted software…