Volvo Cars is investigating a cybersecurity breach and theft of a limited amount of the company’s research and development data. The data breach was reported Friday by the Swedish automaker. The company said one of its file repositories had been illegally accessed by a third party. Investigations have revealed that a “limited amount of the […]
US banks must soon report significant cybersecurity incidents within 36 hours
U.S. financial regulators have approved a new rule that requires banking organizations to report any “significant” cybersecurity incident within 36 hours of discovery. Under the rule, banks must inform their primary federal regulator about incidents that have — or are reasonably likely to materially affect — the viability of their operations, their ability to deliver […]
China’s next generation of hackers won’t be criminals. That’s a problem.
A spate of policies beginning in 2015 put China in a position to replace contracted criminals with new blood from universities.
Starting your journey to zero trust adoption
“Zero trust” is certainly a buzzword that gets freely thrown around in cybersecurity. But what does it actually mean?
Google pulls ‘stalkerware’ ads that promoted phone spying apps
Google has pulled several “stalkerware” ads that violated its policies by promoting apps that encouraged prospective users to spy on their spouses’ phone. These consumer-grade spyware apps are often marketed to parents wishing to monitor their child’s calls, messages, apps, photos and location, often under the guise of protecting against predators. But these apps, which […]
US gov’t will slap contractors with civil lawsuits for hiding breaches
Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative mandates data-breach reporting for gov’t contractors.
New Yubico security keys let you use fingerprints instead of passwords
Yubico’s first hardware security keys to support biometric authentication.
Arctic Wolf acquires ‘Hollywood-style’ cybersecurity training startup Habitu8
Arctic Wolf, a managed cybersecurity company that offers a “security operations-as-a-concierge” service, has acquired Habitu8, a security training and awareness content platform. Terms of the deal — which comes just two months after Arctic Wolf secured $150 million in Series F funding — were not announced, but a person with knowledge of the matter told […]
Russia arrests cybersecurity expert on treason charge
Ilya Sachkov is founder of Group-IB, which specializes in ransomware attack prevention.
Microsoft Outlook shows real person’s contact info for IDN phishing emails
IDN homograph attacks were a problem to begin with. Outlook just made ’em worse.