From the U.S. Department of Justice, Northern District of California: SAN FRANCISCO –Ali Alzabarah, Ahmad Abouammo, and Ahmed Almutairi, a/k/a Ahmed Aljbreen, were charged for their respective roles in fraudulently accessing private information in the accounts of certain Twitter users and providing that information to officials of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, announced United States…
Category: Of Note
Ransomware Hit Case Management Provider TrialWorks. What Happens Next?
Victoria Hudgins reports: Add case management platform TrialWorks to the laundry list of companies and public sector agencies that were struck and paralyzed by a cyberattack this year. And unless lawyers backed up their client files to a separate storage network, they could be frozen out of their data by TrialWorks’ problems. Still, experts say there are ways to mitigate the damage….
“Crafty Cockney” loses extradition appeal; closer to standing trial in U.S. for alleged role in “thedarkoverlord” attacks
Nathan Wyatt, the 38 year-old U.K. resident known as “Crafty Cockney” on AlphaBay market, has lost his bid to convince the High Court to overturn a lower court’s ruling that he should be extradited to the U.S. Today’s ruling means that Wyatt is one step closer to being extradited to stand trial in federal court…
Failure to Encrypt Mobile Devices Leads to $3 Million HIPAA Settlement
From HHS OCR: The University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) has agreed to pay $3 million to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and take substantial corrective action to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules….
Now available: Catalan Information Security Center produces reports in English for the 2019 Barcelona Congress
CESICAT (Information Security Center of Catalonia) contacted me this week to share some news and to ask me to share it with my readers and followers on Twitter. I am delighted to. CESICAT is a public organization committed to protecting cybersecurity of the public sector in Catalonia. Next year they will become the Cybersecurity Agency…
Europol Publishes Law Enforcement and Industry Report on Spear Phishing
The Hague — Today, 4 November 2019, Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) published a strategic report on spear phishing, reflecting the views of both law enforcement and private industry on one of the most prevalent cyber threats currently affecting organisations across the EU. Spear phishing describes the practice of targeting specific individuals within an organisation…