Fraser Tennant reports: …. The reality is that M&A practitioners, in their quest to negotiate the best possible deal, may be less focused on the tools that are used to store and share confidential transactional data – both internally and externally. This can leave such data highly vulnerable to hackers with malicious intent. “Threat actors…
On November 3, 2024, WALB in Georgia reported that Memorial Hospital and Manor had been the victim of a ransomware attack on November 1 that they discovered on November 2. The hospital announced the incident on its Facebook page in a post that is no longer available. But Memorial Hospital and Manor did not appear…
Jennifer Bendery reports: Elon Musk’s team at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency has posted classified information about the size and staff of a U.S. intelligence agency on its new website, raising bigger concerns about where Musk’s programmers got this information and what they are doing with it. DOGE, which President Donald Trump created to…
The insider threat on steroids? Brian Krebs reports: Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk‘s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was given access to sensitive US government systems even though his past association with cybercrime communities should have precluded him from gaining the necessary security clearances to do so. As today’s story explores, the…
When DataBreaches said, “Send in the lawyers” to sue Musk, she was thinking of personal injury lawyers who handle data breach litigation. But 14 state attorneys general may be even better. From NYS Attorney General Letitia James: NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today led a coalition of 14 attorneys general in…
Suzanne Smalley reports: The Treasury Department has agreed to temporarily block all but two members of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team from accessing sensitive payment records and to limit their access to “read-only,” according to a Wednesday court filing. The DOGE workers allowed to continue accessing Treasury’s payment systems are Tom…