In a declassified letter to CIA Director William Burns and DNI Avril Haines from 2021, two U.S. senators urged transparency around alleged "bulk surveillance" conducted by the CIA in response to now-declassified documents compiled by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.
In the latest weekly update, four editors at Information Security Media Group discuss important cybersecurity issues, including how the BlackMatter ransomware group has rebranded itself yet again, how the DOJ confiscated stolen Bitcoin worth more than $4 billion and takeaways from a U.S. Senate hearing on open-source...
Nellie Liang, under secretary for domestic finance at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, was the only witness at a virtual hearing on the President's Working Group report on stablecoins - virtual currencies pegged to fiat currency. Lawmakers weighed in on the benefits and dangers of stablecoins.
The Sri Lankan government plans to implement the Unitary Digital Identity Framework, or UDIF, a national biometrics-based digital identity project. But cybersecurity experts familiar with India's Aadhaar program, whose framework Sri Lanka is set to use, have voiced concerns over data protection.
Several global Computer Emergency Response Teams have issued alerts as well as fixes for Google Chrome browser and Android operating system vulnerabilities. Countries issuing the alerts include France, India and Canada.
Cybercriminals are taking advantage of the final phase of the Windows 11 upgrade announced on Jan. 26 by installing RedLine Stealer malware to those downloading a fake installer, according to the HP threat research team.
Researchers have detected a massive breach of more than 500 stores. All of the targeted sites were still using the 12-year-old Magento 1 e-commerce platform, which Adobe stopped supporting on June 30, 2020.
Jeff Williams, co-founder and CTO of Contrast Security, says people have a right to know if the products they use are secure. It's difficult to tell if software is secure, he says, so companies need incentives to build good security programs, improve their software and disclose any flaws they find.
Michael Hamilton, CISO at security firm Critical Insight, discusses health data breach trends. The bad news: The number of major breaches reported to regulators in 2021 hit a record high. The good news: The rate of breaches reported last year compared to 2020 appears to be slowing down.
This edition of the ISMG Security Report analyzes what prosecutors say is the biggest cryptocurrency seizure in U.S. history as well as the biggest financial seizure. It also details how a school district CISO resigned over the district's handling of a severe data breach and busts Zero Trust myths.
Are ransomware-wielding criminals running scared? That's one likely explanation for the sudden release this week of free, master decryption keys for three different strains of formerly prevalent ransomware: Maze, Sekhmet and Egregor.
Technology giant Microsoft has released patches for 51 vulnerabilities as part of its Patch Tuesday announcement. Of the total, none of the fixes are for critical bugs, and three are rereleased patches. Separately, the company says it will block internet macros by default in its Office applications.
Equifax has agreed to a settlement for the 2017 data breach that exposed the personal information of 147 million people. The settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and 50 U.S. states and territories includes up to $425 million to help victims.
The arrest of a married New Yorker couple, charged with laundering bitcoins worth $3.6 billion that were stolen from a currency exchange in 2016, highlights the risk facing anyone who wants to launder large amounts of cryptocurrency and stay free long enough to enjoy their alleged rap career.
Israeli officials announced they will set up a commission of inquiry to investigate reports that the nation's police force used the flagship spyware of Israeli firm NSO Group, called Pegasus, to hack the phones of Israeli public officials, journalists and activists.
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