- July 4, 2024
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Keeping Digital Assets Safe in the Expanding World of Cryptocurrency
Recent high-profile news about growing acceptance or rejection of cryptocurrencies has huge implications for global financial models of the future. Financial companies and others have
Tight-Lipped Threat Actors Making Five Figures Selling Enterprise Network Access On Underground Forums
Threat intelligence firm IntSights analyzed cybercrime underground forums and discovered that some threat actors preferred selling network access to third parties for up to five figures instead of exploiting
Hamburg DPA Says Zoom Is Not Compliant With GDPR Due to U.S. Data Transfers, No Longer Allowed for State Government Agencies
The outcome of the Schrems II ruling last year continues to plague tech companies operating in Europe, with Zoom the latest to find itself in
Current Administration Tackles Cybersecurity on a National Level
Cybersecurity is a significant concern in the US, especially after SolarWinds, an information technology firm, had a supply chain cyber attack, which later infected their
Nigerian Threat Actors Skip Social Engineering, Make Direct Pitches to Employees To Install Ransomware on Company Networks
Most ransomware attacks begin with a compromised employee email account, something that in turn happens through some combination of phishing and social engineering. An enterprising
Cyber Attack on Crypto Exchange Liquid Results in Loss of $97 Million in Ethereum Tokens and Other Assets
Crypto exchange Liquid, one Japan’s most popular exchanges, is now short $97 million in total assets after a cyber attack that pulled funds directly from
Could Synthetic Data Be the Future of Data Sharing?
Synthetic data generation (SDG) is rapidly emerging as a practical privacy enhancing technology (PET) for sharing data for secondary purposes. It does so by generating
China’s New Data Protection Law Maintains Full State Access To Private Information, but Puts Clamps on Tech Firms Comparable to EU’s GDPR
A draft data protection law that sets terms similar to Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is now set to go into effect in China
Supply Chain Vulnerability in Cloud Connectivity Platform Threatens 83 Million IoT Devices
A supply chain vulnerability in the ThroughTek “Kalay” network, a cloud-based communications platform used by an estimated 83 million Internet of Things (IoT) devices, could
Ransomware Is Too Easy for Criminals; Let’s Make It Harder
Russian hackers chose July 4th, America’s Independence Day, to launch the largest ransomware attack on record. Although their target was a US software company, the