[ad_1] Security incident response and forensics are at the top of every CISO’s capability list. But how well are the executives, department and organization prepared? Rob Lee, SANS Institute chief curriculum director and faculty lead, discusses the skills and new levels of preparedness security teams and businesses must have to deal with the onslaught of...Read More

[ad_1] Thursday, February 17, 2022 In a class action lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Clearview Al Inc. faces allegations that it uses facial recognition technology that violates the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). The complaint alleged that Clearview scraped over three billion images from various social...Read More

[ad_1] (Bloomberg) — A Russia-linked cybercrime gang was allegedly responsible for ransomware attacks that took down a swath of Germany’s fuel-distribution system this week and hindered payments at some filling stations. Most Read from Bloomberg Hackers using a strain of ransomware known as “Black Cat” infected computers at Mabanaft GmbH and Oiltanking GmbH Group, according...Read More

[ad_1] We’re barely into 2022, and already we’re seeing ransomware proliferate. What we saw last year is that while most attacks continue to exploit known vulnerabilities, cybercriminals have also redoubled efforts to target new ones – such as what we saw with Hafnium and new Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities. We expect that this year, as a...Read More

[ad_1] CALEXICO — A concerted effort to help prevent local Medicare beneficiaries from being fraudulently enrolled in a hospice appears to have helped stem the troubling trend. The scam typically involved seniors who were approached outside discount stores and supermarkets and misled into believing they were signing up for additional Medicare benefits but were instead...Read More

[ad_1] The prosecution next month of four men accused of plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will be a multimedia production with testimony from four dozen witnesses, a replica bomb built by the FBI, virtual recreations of key locations, including a secret training camp, and a discrete plan to compensate for scandals engulfing the case. Federal...Read More

[ad_1] Samsung last week released the February 2022 Android security update to the Galaxy Note 10 and Galaxy Note 10+. But that rollout was limited to the carrier-locked variants of the 2019 Galaxy flagships in the US. The new security patch is now rolling out to the international versions of the two phones as well....Read More

[ad_1] Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III Holds a Press Conference at NATO Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium > U.S. Department of Defense > Transcript | #cybersecurity | #cyberattack – NATIONAL CYBER SECURITY NEWS TODAY ✕ nationalcybersecuritynews.toda FREE VIEW Click Here For The Original Source. ————————————————————————————-Read More

[ad_1] There are no laws to shield people from misinformation. So, as the nation chugs toward the final stretch of the presidential campaign season, Americans need to take a good look at where they gathered the information that forms their political opinions.  If your news flows primarily from social media sources such as Facebook, Twitter...Read More

[ad_1] Macroeconomic factors usually impact major social media companies in similar ways. But in Q4, the three social giants — Meta, Snap and Twitter — all outlined different narratives and mixed messaging for the future of their businesses.  Meta kicked things off Feb. 2, and it was dismal to say the least. The stock hemorrhaged...Read More