Washington D.C., Oct. 22, 2024 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged four current and former public companies – Unisys Corp., Avaya Holdings Corp., Check Point Software Technologies Ltd, and Mimecast Limited – with making materially misleading disclosures regarding cybersecurity risks and intrusions. The SEC also charged Unisys with disclosure controls and procedures violations….
Matt L. Hall reports: Hackers have again created havoc with the Internet Archive and its Wayback Machine, just one day after the site reported it had been restored. While Archive-It and the Internet Archive blog are still up, currently, the rest of IA’s services are seemingly unavailable. That means if you’re an avid user of…
Following up on President Biden’s recent executive order and the Justice Department’s notice of proposed rulemaking, CISA has issued the following: PROPOSED SECURITY REQUIREMENTS FOR RESTRICTED TRANSACTIONS Pursuant to Exec. Order 14117, Preventing Access to Americans’ Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and United States Government-Related Data by Countries of Concern On February 28, 2024, President Biden signed…
Ayesha Arvind reports: The Madras High Court Wednesday dismissed the petition filed by cyber security researcher Himanshu Pathak seeking a probe into the alleged data breach at national insurance firm, Star Health Insurance. Justice M Dhandapani dismissed Pathak’s petition after noting that a civil suit filed by Star Health last year dealing with the same issue is already pending…
Yemen News Agency (SABA) reports that infrastructure attacks by a number of pro-Palestinian groups has caused temporary disruption to banks, airports and government websites in Cyprus: The first warnings about a possible cyber operation against Cyprus appeared last week, following statements on Telegram and dark web forums from groups such as “Lulzsic Black” (sic), “Moroccan…
Censys recently published a new research report that looks at exposed data on the internet involving healthcare devices and systems connected to PHI. Here’s their Executive Summary: Censys discovered 14,004 unique IP addresses exposing healthcare devices and data systems connected to potentially sensitive medical information on the public internet. These exposures greatly raise the risk of unauthorized…