There’s an update to the case involving Ardit Ferizi, whose criminal history and conviction for hacking and providing material support to a terrorist organization have been covered previously. Just last month, Ferizi had been sentenced to 20 years in prison, but was granted a reduction to time served plus 10 years supervised release, to be…
Eneco warns customers for data breach: ‘Change your password, personal data may have been accessed’
The following is a translation of an alert on Opgelicht?! Energy supplier Eneco is warning (former) customers of a possible data breach: they have established that cyber criminals have managed to gain access to the accounts of 1,700 customers and that personal information may have been stolen. What you need to know? Last week, Eneco…
PA: Clearfield Co. Hit by Cyberattack
Jessica Shirey reports: A cyberattack infected all of Clearfield County’s servers and 15 percent of its computers over the weekend. Commissioner John A. Sobel, board chairman, Tony Scotto and Dave Glass issued the following public statement Tuesday: “Clearfield County recently detected and is responding to malware activity on its computer network. As soon as we…
Computer-Security Incident Notification Requirements for Banking Organizations and Their Bank Service Providers
A Proposed Rule by the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Reserve System, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation on 01/12/2021 This document has a comment period that ends in 90 days. (04/12/2021). You can submit a formal comment on it. Summary: The OCC, Board, and FDIC (together, the agencies) invite comment on a notice of proposed rulemaking (proposed rule or…
Ex-SoftBank engineer held for 5G trade secret theft
The Yomiuri Shimbun reports: The Metropolitan Police Department on Tuesday arrested a former engineer of SoftBank Corp. on suspicion of violating the Unfair Competition Prevention Law by illegally divulging trade secrets regarding the 5G fifth-generation telecommunications standard, the MPD said. Kuniaki Aiba, 45, of Yokohama quit SoftBank and started working for Rakuten Mobile, Inc., one…
Networking giant Ubiquiti alerts customers of potential data breach
Lawrence Abrams reports: Networking device maker Ubiquiti has announced a security incident that may have exposed its customers’ data. Ubiquiti is a very popular networking device manufacturer best known for its UniFi line of wired and wireless network products and a cloud management platform. Today, Ubiquiti began emailing customers to change their passwords and enable…