From the Federal Trade Commission: The Federal Trade Commission will require Marriott International, Inc. and its subsidiary Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide LLC to implement a robust information security program to settle charges that the companies’ failure to implement reasonable data security led to three large data breaches from 2014 to 2020 impacting more than 344…
Kristina Beek reports: Former Uber CISO Joseph Sullivan, convicted in 2023 of trying to cover up a data breach, is seeking a new trial, citing procedures omissions from his original trial that his lawyers said tainted the verdict. Sullivan was initially convicted on charges related to Uber’s 2016 data breach and was sentenced to three years of…
Dutch News reports: A 20-year-old Englishman appeared in court in Rotterdam on Tuesday for his role in setting up and running a dark web marketplace named Bohemia. Finlay H, who was just 17 when he became embroiled in the website, was arrested at Schiphol airport this summer. He was in court for a procedural hearing…
Vince Quill reports: An academic paper titled: “Reconciliation of Anti-Money Laundering Instruments and European Data Protection Requirements in Permissionless Blockchain Spaces” published in the Journal of Cybersecurity suggests that governments should target cryptocurrencies — especially privacy preserving chains — to combat money laundering. The author of the paper outlined several methods of undermining trust in permissionless blockchains including 51%…
Brittney Levinson reports: The $11.1 million small business cyber resilience service will offer free, one-on-one assistance to small business owners to help them recover from and build resilience against cyber attacks. The federal government has appointed IDCARE, a not-for-profit advisory group, to run the service. Minister for Small Business Julie Collins said a cyber incident…
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Russian authorities have arrested 96 individuals linked to the Cryptex cryptocurrency exchange, the UAPS anonymous money transfer system, and 33 other illegal payment systems. The arrests took place following house searches at 148 locations across 14 Russian regions in what Russian media has called one of the country’s largest crackdowns against cybercrime and cryptocurrency gangs. According…