You’re on a call with someone and they can hear you keyboarding. Can they wind up figuring out what you typed or stealing any passwords you typed in while on the call? Bill Toulas reports: A team of researchers from British universities has trained a deep learning model that can steal data from keyboard keystrokes…
Parathon by JDA eHealth Systems hit by Akira? They haven’t responded to inquiries.
Visitors to Akira’s dark web leak site are greeted with a message: Well, you are here. It means that you’re suffering from cyber incident right now. Think of our actions as an unscheduled forced audit of your network for vulnerabilities. Keep in mind that there is a fair price to make it all go away….
Massive data breach could impact many who attended or worked for public schools in Colorado
Tony Keith reports: A news release issued by the Colorado Department of Higher Education is notifying the public of a “data incident.” KKTV 11 News is working to learn more about the situation, but the release reads as follows: The Colorado Department of Higher Education (“CDHE”) is providing notice of a cybersecurity incident that may…
Nigerian National Pleads Guilty to $1.25 Million Business Email Compromise Scam Impacting U.S. Company
WASHINGTON – Onwuchekwa Nnanna Kalu, 39, a Nigerian National from Rivers State, Nigeria, pleaded guilty today to stealing $1.25 million from an investment firm located in Boston, through a business email compromise (“BEC”) scam. The plea was announced by U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves and Acting Special Agent in Charge David Geist, of the FBI Washington Field…
Parents, students are baffled by letters confirming Crown Point school network breach months ago
Megan Hickey reports that there is finally a notification letter, of sorts, to parents about a network breach in November. In April, Indiana media had been reporting that the parents and community still had not been told what had happened. After a massive network breach temporarily closed schools in Crown Point, Indiana last fall, we are finally…
Proposed Second Amendment to NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulations: Comments Due August 14
Micaela McMurrough and Caleb Skeath of Covington & Burling write: Following up on the recent release by the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) of an updated proposed second amendment to its “first-in-the-nation” Cybersecurity Regulation, 23 NYCRR Part 500 (proposed second amendment released June 28, 2023), it is not too late for companies to submit comments…