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Biden Budget Proposes Boost for Cybersecurity Funding
- Saturday, 02 April 2022
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- Written by Security Tech Brief
The Biden administration’s recently unveiled budget for fiscal 2023 includes a hefty increase in cybersecurity spending. So reports CyberScoop.
Read more...Okta Acknowledges 'Mistake' in Handling Lapsus$ Hack
- Saturday, 02 April 2022
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- Written by Security Tech Brief
Okta has conceded that the widely used identity-verification company goofed in its response to a January hack by the Lapsus$ extortion group. So reports Bleeping Computer.
Read more...FCC Adds Russia’s Kaspersky to List of National Security Threats
- Saturday, 02 April 2022
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The Federal Communications Commission, warning that Kaspersky Labs poses an “unacceptable risk to national security,” has added the Russia-based cybersecurity firm to a list of companies banned from receiving FCC funds. So reports Mashable.
Read more...Data Breach Affects 820,000 New York City Students
- Saturday, 02 April 2022
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A hack of widely used grading and attendance systems earlier this year exposed the personal data of about 820,000 current and past New York City public school students. So reports United Press International.
Read more...Feds Investigate Healthcare Data Breaches Affecting 1.4 Million People
- Thursday, 24 March 2022
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The federal government is looking into healthcare data breaches involving more than one million people in North Carolina and South Carolina alone. So reports WCNC.
Read more...Meta Must Pay $19M Over Data Breaches, Irish Watchdog Rules
- Thursday, 24 March 2022
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Facebook parent Meta Platforms has been fined 17 million euros ($18.7 million) by Ireland’s data regulator. So reports Reuters.
Read more...Crypto Firms Admit Data Breach Due to Third-party Hack
- Thursday, 24 March 2022
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- Written by Security Tech Brief
Various cryptocurrency-related companies have acknowledged suffering data breaches after a cyberattack hit the customer relationship management company HubSpot. So reports CoinDesk.
Read more...Okta Data Breach May Have Affected Hundreds of Clients
- Thursday, 24 March 2022
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Okta, a widely used identity verification provider, has conceded that a January data breach may have exposed information of hundreds of clients. So reports CNN.
Read more...Apple Services Go Down On Two Consecutive Days
- Thursday, 24 March 2022
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- Written by Security Tech Brief
Multiple Apple services have suffered unexplained outages for at least a couple of consecutive days. So reports CNET.
Read more...Sinclair Details Losses Due to October Ransomware Attack
- Thursday, 17 March 2022
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Sinclair Broadcasting Group suffered $24 million in unrecoverable net losses from an October ransomware attack that disrupted its programming, the company has disclosed in its year-end filing with the SEC. So reports Cybersecurity Dive.
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