GRANDVILLE, Mich. — The Downtown Grandville Facebook page, which has 5,000 likes, has been taken over by hackers. Strange and often suggestive images started surfacing on the page about a week ago. A new page has been created to replace the old one, called Downtown GRANDville. People are encourage to “like” and “follow” this new...Read More

UPDATE 14/3/24: Top Pokémon Go player FleeceKing has had access to his account restored by the game’s developer Niantic. FleeceKing confirmed the news via social media last night and said he was happy with the result, but couldn’t “get into the details of the situation”. Today, Niantic has confirmed to Eurogamer it assisted in...Read More

Through the controversial internet.org initiative, Facebook now serves as The Internet to the majority of the world’s marginalized demographic. The Politics of Data series continues with Payal Arora discussing the role of Facebook and internet regulation in the global South. While the West have had privacy laws in place since the 1970s, the emerging markets are only now seriously...Read More

The U.S. is still identifying victims targeted by an extensive China-backed hacking campaign that became the subject of a recent FBI takedown operation and other advisories from officials over the past year, a top NSA cyber official said. Rob Joyce, the agency’s outgoing cybersecurity director, said on Friday that the U.S. is still finding victims...Read More

Jason Griffin, Managing Director, Digital Health Strategy and Cybersecurity at Nordic Consulting Andy Adams, Managing Director, Performance Improvement and Advisory Services at Nordic Consulting The recent cyberattack on Change Healthcare highlights the healthcare industry’s vulnerability when threatened with criminal attempts to disrupt technology and operations. The ransomware strike caused a chain reaction among healthcare providers, where...Read More

MIAMI — In recent months, U.S. intelligence officials have issued a series of pitched warnings about Chinese hacking operations targeting American critical infrastructure, but at a gathering last week of the world’s foremost industrial cybersecurity experts, the conversations among those charged with protecting these systems were anything but alarmed when it came to China. Instead, conversations...Read More

FBI IC3 Report Highlights BEC, Ransomware – ReliaQuest […] The post FBI IC3 Report Highlights BEC, Ransomware | #ransomware | #cybercrime first appeared on National Cyber Security Consulting. The post FBI IC3 Report...Read More

A recent date breach at Alabama A&M has placed the importance of cyber security in the spotlight. (Michael Seale/Hville Blast) A recent data breach issue at Alabama A&M brought to light an issue that has plagued institutions and organizations more and more throughout the state. Cyber crime is on the rise, and Alabama is a...Read More

A recent date breach at Alabama A&M has placed the importance of cyber security in the spotlight. (Michael Seale/Hville Blast) A recent data breach issue at Alabama A&M brought to light an issue that has plagued institutions and organizations more and more throughout the state. Cyber crime is on the rise, and Alabama is a...Read More

WARSAW – The leader of Poland’s largest opposition party said on Friday he would refuse to tell everything he knows to a parliamentary commission investigating allegations of phone-hacking when his party was in power. Jaroslaw Kaczynski missed out part of the oath as he appeared before the commission, which is looking into whether the previous...Read More