NYS Attorney General has been the most active state attorney general in terms of going after entities that don’t secure data properly. The following is from her latest press release: NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James secured $450,000 from three companies that distribute eufy home security video cameras for failing to secure consumers’…
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DeepSeek hit with ‘large-scale’ cyber-attack after AI chatbot tops app stores
Dara Kerr reports: DeepSeek said its newly popular app was hit with a cyber-attack on Monday, which forced the Chinese company to temporarily limit registrations. The attack came after the DeepSeek AI assistant app soared to the top of Apple’s App Store, becoming the highest rated free app in the US, and climbed high in Google’s Play…
Let’s Secure Insurance failed to secure their own data storage. Now they have a breach.
Kumar Hemant reports: Let’s Secure Insurance Brokers Pvt Ltd., a prominent Indian insurance brokerage firm, has reportedly fallen victim to ransomware. The perpetrators, identified as the Kill Security (alias KillSec) group, claim to have gained unauthorised access to the company’s data, sparking concerns over potential data breaches. India has increasingly become a focal point for…
Cloudflare CDN flaw leaks user location data, even through secure chat apps
Bill Toulas reports: A security researcher discovered a flaw in Cloudflare’s content delivery network (CDN), which could expose a person’s general location by simply sending them an image on platforms like Signal and Discord. While the geo-locating capability of the attack is not precise enough for street-level tracking, it can provide enough data to infer what…
DOJ confirms arrested US Army soldier is linked to AT&T and Verizon hacks
Zack Whittaker reports: U.S. prosecutors have formally linked the arrest of a serving U.S. Army soldier in December to a massive theft of U.S. phone records from AT&T and Verizon last year. Authorities arrested Cameron John Wagenius, a U.S. Army communications specialist, in Texas on December 20 following a brief two-page grand jury indictment accusing the U.S….
FTC Takes Action Against GoDaddy for Alleged Lax Data Security for Its Website Hosting Services
Proposed order will prohibit GoDaddy from misleading customers about its security protections and require it to establish a robust information security program January 15, 2025 The Federal Trade Commission will require web hosting company GoDaddy to implement a robust information security program to settle charges that the company failed to secure its website-hosting services against…