Karl Sebastian Greenwood, a dual citizen of Sweden and the United Kingdom, pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court to his role in selling the purported multibillion-dollar cryptocurrency pyramid OneCoin that netted $4 billion. He now faces sentencing.
IronNet is just days away from insolvency and its board of directors says it will investigate allegations that company executives misled investors over growth projections. The firm was founded and is helmed by retired Army Gen. Keith Alexander, the former NSA director and U.S. Cyber Command chief.
More than a quarter million Medicare beneficiaries will be issued new Medicare cards and identifiers following a ransomware attack on a government contractor compromising a range of sensitive personal and health information.
In October, former Uber CSO Joe Sullivan was convicted of covering up a 2016 data breach. The trial likely marked the first time a chief security officer had faced criminal charges over incident response. Attorney Jonathan Armstrong says, "This trend is going to be difficult to put back in the box."
The email attack vector. It may not earn much discussion, but the adversaries take full advantage of it with phishing, BEC and now email platform attacks. Mike Britton, CISO of Abnormal Security, talks about the latest threat trends and how to detect and defend against them.
APIs increasingly drive everything from web and mobile application development to IoT devices since they streamline communication among disparate systems, says Synack CEO Jay Kaplan. But testing the efficacy and security of APIs remains challenging given the size of API endpoints.
In the latest weekly update, Troy Leach, chief strategy officer at Cloud Security Alliance, joins ISMG editors to discuss the latest innovation in the payments space and accompanying risks, as well as how the case of Sam Bankman-Fried's failed cryptocurrency exchange will affect regulatory actions.
From the cyberwar in Ukraine to ongoing ransomware threats and emerging global data regulations, 2022 has been a taxing year for CISOs. And they can expect more of the same in 2023, says Rodman Ramezanian of Skyhigh Security. He offers predictions and advice for the new year.
After 20 years DDoS remains a problem due to the old protocols used by the internet, making DDOS protection and mitigation not just sensible to have but a fundamental element of cybersecurity.
A forensic examination of an email hosting service offered by subsidiaries of Australian telecom firm TPG revealed an intrusion affecting up to 15,000 customers, the company disclosed Wednesday. The breach adds to a growing list of cyber incidents experienced by Australia's telecommunication sector.
A Florida primary care practice will pay a $20,000 financial penalty and implement a corrective action plan to settle a HIPAA right of patient access dispute. The case is the 42nd such dispute resolved by the Department of Health and Human Services since April 2019.
U.S. federal prosecutors charged six men ranging in age from 19 to 37 with running distributed denial-of-service attacks for sale on the internet. One of the accused allegedly ran a site, Ipstresser.com, responsible for more than 30 million DDoS attacks.
Anything that can write a software code can also write malware. The latest AI technology can do it in seconds. Even worse, it could open the door to rapid innovation for hackers with little or no technical skills or help them overcome language barriers to writing the perfect phishing email.
A hacker selling a data set purportedly containing emails stripped from the FBI's InfraGard public-private cybersecurity forum obtained access by sending an application, which the bureau approved, reports independent cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs.
A California dental practice that for years revealed patient data on Yelp must stop doing so and pay federal regulators a $23,000 fine. New Vision Dental, owned by Dr. Brandon Au, must also delete social media posts and send breach notification letters to affected patients.
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