Matthew LaGarde writes: The US Department of Defense’s implementation of a new cybersecurity framework, the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification 2.0 or CMMC, will require more than 300,000 military contracting companies to improve their cybersecurity protections. These safeguards are critically important, but it appears that more than half of military contractors are unprepared to meet these new requirements…
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Benworth Capital Partners negotiated with threat actors after more than 25,000 lenders had data stolen
Benworth Capital Partners PR LLC is a licensed lender in Florida that describes itself as a “hard money lender.” Benworth claims they make the decisions to fund hard money loans “based on our unique criteria that’s a lot different than a bank, credit union, or mainstream online lender. The funds used for our hard money…
Something Old and Something New: The False Claims Act and Cybersecurity
Elizabeth F. Greene and Kristen Dupard pf Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP write: The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently obtained several cybersecurity-related False Claims Act (FCA) settlements totaling more than $50 million dollars. Collectively, these settlements reflect a clear message: Cybersecurity is an enforcement priority for the second Trump administration, and any organization that contracts…
Veradigm’s Breach Claims Under Scrutiny After Dark Web Leak
Veradigm LLC is a health information technology company that provides software solutions to healthcare providers. On September 22, 2025, Veradigm filed breach notification letters with some state attorneys general. According to the notice, Veradigm learned that an unauthorized party accessed some clients’ data on December 15, 2024. The clients’ data was located in a storage…
Snowflake Loses Two More Bids to Dismiss Data Breach Plaintiffs
Cloud company Snowflake’s data breach litigation woes got worse as two bids to dismiss education and financial institutional plaintiffs from the case largely failed to convince a federal judge. The Los Angeles Unified School District was just one of the at least 165 companies and organizations which had their data stolen because cybercriminals hacked into…
US company with access to biggest telecom firms uncovers breach by nation-state hackers
A.J. Vicens reports: Hackers working for an unnamed nation-state breached networks at Ribbon Communications, a key U.S. telecommunications services company, and remained within the firm’s systems for nearly a year without being detected, a company spokesperson confirmed in a statement on Wednesday. Ribbon Communications, a Texas-based company that provides technology to facilitate voice and data…