Luke Gallin reports: Global insurance and reinsurance broker Aon was hit by a cyber attack on February 25th, 2022, according to an 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the U.S. In its filing, Aon states that it identified a cyber incident impacting a limited number of systems. Read more at Reinsurance…
Breach Notification: Poor Transparency Complicates Response
Anyone trying to make sense of data breach trends faces a transparency challenge. Too often, a lack of detail undercuts consumers’ ability to assess their identity theft risk and businesses’ ability to block emerging attacks or ensure that their supply chains remain secure. Amen to that! Read Mathew J. Schwartz’s article on BankInfoSecurity.
HC3: Destructive Malware Targeting Organizations in Ukraine
HHS Cybersecurity Program has issued another alert and whitepaper report (202202280900): Executive Summary Leading up to Russia’s unprovoked attack against Ukraine, threat actors deployed destructive malware against organizations in Ukraine to destroy computer systems and render them inoperable. Destructive malware can present a direct threat to an organization’s daily operations, impacting the availability of critical…
Hackers interrupt Catholic charity’s online press conference on Ukraine
Hacktivists on both sides of the Russia-Ukraine war have been busy. CNA reports that some hackers disrupted a Zoom event to stream obscenities and to post fake messages from participants — because disrupting faith-based events is always going to score points with the public, right? An online press conference by a Catholic charity on the…
Preparing for Cyberattacks and Limiting Liability
Lani M. Duffy and Richard A. Walawender of Miller Canfield write: The U.S. government and military experts have been warning U.S. companies that Russia may launch significant cyberattacks against critical infrastructure, financial institutions and businesses in retaliation for the sanctions imposed against Russia. Last week, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (established in 2018 under…
Airline Sues to Stop Popular Web-Scraping Service–American Airlines v. The Points Guy
Kieran McCarthy writes: Those interested in web scraping legal issues had high hopes that the Supreme Court’s opinion in Van Buren v. United States last summer would provide clear guidelines on which types of online data access were permissible and which were not. And while most would agree that the Supreme Court avoided a worst-case scenario with its…