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State Department Launches Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy
State Department Launches Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy
The State Department's new cybersecurity bureau officially launched on Monday in an effort to make digital rights issues an integral part of US foreign policy. This move comes at a time when Russia and China are increasingly tryin...
UK Police Charge Two Teenagers with Ties to the Lapsus$ Hacking Group
UK Police Charge Two Teenagers with Ties to the Lapsus$ Hacking Group
Two UK teenagers charged with assisting the Lapsus$ hacking group have been released on bail after appearing in the Highbury Corner Magistrates Court court on Friday morning. According to a statement from Detective Inspector Mi...
Google Found to Collect Data from Dialer and Messages with No Opt-Out Option
Google Found to Collect Data from Dialer and Messages with No Opt-Out Option
Douglas Leith, a computer science professor at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland, has investigated exactly how much data Android devices send back through the Google Messages and Google Dialer apps. Some apps send data even whe...
Biden Extends US National Emergency Due to Increased Malicious Cyber Threats
Biden Extends US National Emergency Due to Increased Malicious Cyber Threats
US President Joe Biden had extended the state of national emergency in a notice yesterday in order to deal with increasingly widespread and severe malicious cyber threats to the United States national security, foreign policy, and...
Netflix Faces Backlash After Cracking Down on Password Sharing
Netflix Faces Backlash After Cracking Down on Password Sharing
Streaming giant Netflix has faced significant backlash after announcing on March 16 that it was going to begin making some subscribers pay an additional fee for sharing their account with users outside their household. Netflix...
Europol Busts International Call Center Investment Scam Operation
Europol Busts International Call Center Investment Scam Operation
Europol announced on Tuesday the arrest of 108 people suspected of being involved in an international call center operation that deceived victims into investment scams. The operation was conducted along with law enforcement fro...
FCC Adds Kaspersky to List of National Security Threats
FCC Adds Kaspersky to List of National Security Threats
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has added Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab to its list of organizations that pose an “unacceptable risk to US national security,” according to a report from Bloomberg on Fr...
Russia Bans Google News for Reporting "Unreliable" Info on War in Ukraine
Russia Bans Google News for Reporting "Unreliable" Info on War in Ukraine
Roskomnadzor, Russia's telecommunications regulator, has banned Google News and blocked access to the news.google.com domain for providing access to "unreliable information" on the ongoing war in Ukraine. “Based on a request fr...
Data Breach at French Public Health Insurer Exposes Personal Data of Over 500,000 Citizens
Data Breach at French Public Health Insurer Exposes Personal Data of Over 500,000 Citizens
Personally identifiable information of more than 500,000 French citizens was stolen from the Caisse Nationale de l’AssuranceMaladie (CNAM) after criminals gained access to the accounts of healthcare professionals. In a brief po...
BlackBerry Researchers Discover New Ransomware Family that Targets Windows Systems
BlackBerry Researchers Discover New Ransomware Family that Targets Windows Systems
Security researchers at BlackBerry have identified a new Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) family on March 16 and traced it back to its alleged beta stage release. The strain, called LokiLocker, encrypts victims’ files, renders co...