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Record breach of French government exposes up to 43 million people's data

French unemployment agency data breach impacts 43

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21by Connor Jones / 23h

Zut alors! Department for registering and helping unemployed people broken into 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.…

Cop shop rapped for 'completely avoidable' web form blunder

London Mayor's Office reprimanded for data breach

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by Paul Kunert / 4h

Made public highly sensitive data on complaints about Metropolitan Police Service The London Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime is being rapped by regulators for untidy tech practices that made public the personal data of hundreds of people who filed complaints against the Metropolitan Police Service.…

Whizkids jimmy OpenAI, Google's closed models

22by Thomas Claburn / 2d

Infosec folk aren’t thrilled that if you poke APIs enough, you learn AI's secrets Boffins have managed to pry open closed AI services from OpenAI and Google with an attack that recovers an otherwise hidden portion of transformer models.…

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Cryptocurrency laundryman gets hung out to dry

Bitcoin Fog founder convicted money laundering

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by Connor Jones / 15h

Bitcoin Fog washed hundreds of millions for criminals The operator of the world's longest-running Bitcoin money laundering service faces a 50-year prison sentence after being found guilty in a US court.…

Forget TikTok – Chinese spies want to steal IP by backdooring digital locks

Chinese-made safe locks pose security risk

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by Jessica Lyons / 16h

Uncle Sam can use this snooping tool, too, but that's beside the point There's another Chinese-manufactured product – joining the likes of TikTok, cars and semiconductors – that poses a national security risk to Americans: electronic locks, such as those used in safes.…

FTC goes undercover to probe suspected antivirus scam, scores $26M settlement

by Brandon Vigliarolo / 19h

Imagine trying to trick folks into buying $500 of unnecessary repairs – and they turn out to be federal agents A pair of tech support businesses accused of swindling marks out of their hard-earned cash have agreed to cough up a $26 million settlement following an undercover probe by the FTC.…

LockBit ransomware kingpin gets 4 years behind bars

Russian-Canadian hacker Mikhail Vasiliev sentenced

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by Jessica Lyons / 21h

Canadian-Russian said to have turned to a life of cybercrime during pandemic, now must pay the price – literally A LockBit ransomware kingpin has been sentenced to almost four years behind bars and ordered to pay more than CA$860,000 ($635,000, £500,000) in restitution to some of his victims by a Canadian court as he awaits extradition to the US.…

Google gooses Safe Browsing with real-time protection that doesn't leak to ad giant

Google Chrome enhances real-time protection

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by Thomas Claburn / 21h

Rare occasion when you do want Big Tech to make a hash of it Google has enhanced its Safe Browsing service to enable real-time protection in Chrome for desktop, iOS, and soon Android against risky websites, without sending browsing history data to the ad biz.…

International effort to disrupt cybercrime moves into operational phase

by Jessica Lyons / 1d

Will the WEF experiment work? 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.…

US to probe Change Healthcare's data protection standards as lawsuits mount

Change Healthcare hit by Blackcat ransomware

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by Connor Jones / 1d

Services slowly coming back online but providers still struggling Change Healthcare is being investigated over the alleged 6 TB data theft by the ALPHV ransomware group as it continues recovery efforts.…

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US Congress goes bang, bang, on TikTok sale-or-ban plan

Biden supports TikTok ban bill

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by Simon Sharwood / 1d

Bill proposes to do to China what China already does to the US – make life hard for foreign social networks The United States House of Representatives on Wednesday passed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act – a law aimed at forcing TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the app's US operations or face the prospect of a ban.…

Nissan to let 100,000 Aussies and Kiwis know their data was stolen in cyberattack

Nissan cyberattack impacts 100

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by Connor Jones / 1d

Akira ransomware crooks brag of swiping thousands of ID documents during break-in Over the next few weeks, Nissan Oceania will make contact with around 100,000 people in Australia and New Zealand whose data was pilfered in a December 2023 attack on its systems – perhaps by the Akira ransomware gang.…

Poking holes in Google tech bagged bug hunters $10M

Google paid $10 million bug bounties

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by Jessica Lyons / 1d

A $2M drop from previous year. So … things are more secure? Google awarded $10 million to 632 bug hunters last year through its vulnerability reward programs.…

Microsoft Copilot for Security prepares for April liftoff

Microsoft Security Copilot general availability

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by Thomas Claburn / 1d

Automated AI helper intended to make security more manageable Microsoft Copilot for Security, a subscription AI security service, will be generally available on April 1, 2024, the company announced on Wednesday.…

Stanford University failed to detect ransomware intruders for 4 months

Stanford University data breach affects 27

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20by Connor Jones / 2d

27,000 individuals had data stolen, which for some included names and social security numbers Stanford University says the cybersecurity incident it dealt with last year was indeed ransomware, which it failed to spot for more than