Singles seeking love online this Valentine’s Day are cautioned to be extra vigilant about romance scammers who create fake profiles to deceive and solicit money from unsuspecting individuals. With new technology like Artificial Intelligence, cryptocurrency, deepfake videos and voice cloning scams can now be more dangerous than ever. Especially in Arizona, with the Grand Canyon...Read More

Tornado Cash was hit by U.S. sanctions in August 2022. This spurred Lazarus Group to use another mixer, Sinbad, to obfuscate their ill-gotten gains. However, Sinbad itself was seized by U.S. authorities in November, prompting Lazarus to make the shift back to Tornado Cash, Elliptic said in its blog post. One of Tornado Cash’s founders,...Read More

When Iranian government operatives hacked into water utilities across the U.S. late last year, it was a chilling reminder of how vulnerable the water sector remains — and how tortuous the efforts to regulate its cybersecurity have been. Amid rising tensions with foreign adversaries — especially China, which has shown an eagerness to breach U.S....Read More

A French government department – responsible for registering and assisting unemployed people – is the latest victim of a mega data breach that compromised the information of up to 43 million citizens. France Travail announced on Wednesday that it informed the country’s data protection watchdog (CNIL) of an incident that exposed a swathe of personal...Read More

It was interesting to read the Ipsos report on Cyber Security Skills in the UK Labor Market 2023, which highlighted the ongoing frustrations and challenges in recruiting, training, and retaining staff across all cybersecurity domains. Some enlightening findings were: Approximately 739,000 businesses (50% surveyed) need to fill in basic skills. That is, the people in...Read More

The Organization of American States (OAS) and the Spanish National Cybersecurity Institute (INCIBE) today open the call for applications to participate as students in the ninth edition of the Cybersecurity Summer BootCamp, to be held in July in Spain. This specialized cybersecurity training program aims to provide participants with intensive, hands-on training in relevant topics...Read More

You may recall that the Securities and Exchange Commission has new rules for timely disclosure of cyberattacks. One major reason the SEC wanted to implement these rules was its belief that companies were too slow to disclose when they had been hacked. To address this, the rules now state that a company must disclose cybersecurity...Read More

Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlight with Cohesity is an hour-long discussion and software demo focusing on how their FortKnox solution protects against ransomware with secure cyber vaulting. What is a Solutions Spotlight? Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlights are exclusive webinar events for industry professionals across enterprise technology. Since its first virtual event in June 2020, Solutions Review has expanded...Read More

The Cybercrime Atlas, a massive undertaking that aims to disrupt cybercriminals across the globe, enters its operational phase in 2024, two years after organizers laid the groundwork at the RSA Conference. At the time, the public-private collaboration was still in the proof-of-concept stage with one ambitious goal – to map out relationships between criminal groups,...Read More

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images AI assistants have been widely available for a little more than a year, and they already have access to our most private thoughts and business secrets. People ask them about becoming pregnant or terminating or preventing pregnancy, consult them when considering a divorce, seek information about drug addiction, or ask...Read More