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HR Platform Kronos Hit By Ransomware Attack, Warns of Breach
- Sunday, 02 January 2022
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Human-resources management platform Kronos has suffered an outage due to a ransomware attack and its parent company UKG has informed big clients that data may have been exposed. So reports ZDNet.
Read more...Ex-L.A. Cybersecurity Official Pleads Guilty to Lying to FBI
- Sunday, 02 January 2022
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David Alexander, a former chief cyber risk officer for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, has agreed to plead guilty to lying to the FBI in connection with a wider scandal at the agency. So reports the Los Angeles Times.
Read more...Volvo Suffers R&D Data Theft in Cybersecurity Breach
- Sunday, 02 January 2022
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Volvo has disclosed that some of its research and development data was stolen in a cybersecurity breach. So reports TechCrunch.
Read more...Cybersecurity Tome Wins Nod As 2021’s 'Business Book of the Year'
- Friday, 10 December 2021
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The Financial Times and consultancy McKinsey & Company have named 'This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends' by journalist Nicole Perlroth as the “Business Book of the Year” for 2021. So reports CNBC.
Read more...T-Mobile Class Actions to Go Ahead in Missouri Court
- Friday, 10 December 2021
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A flood of lawsuits against T-Mobile over a recently disclosed data breach are to proceed in a Kansas City, Missouri federal court, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has ruled. So reports Reuters.
Read more...Biden Officials Meet with Silicon Valley Execs On Cybersecurity
- Friday, 10 December 2021
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Top Biden administration dignitaries have sat down in Silicon Valley with technology and cybersecurity firms amid an effort to encourage the private sector to do more to help thwart hackers. So reports Politico.
Read more...Amazon Seeks to Avoid Daily Fine Over GDPR Breach
- Friday, 10 December 2021
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A lawyer for Amazon has asked a judge in Luxembourg to stop a daily fine of 746,000 euros (about $843,000) that the company would face if it misses a January 15 deadline to update its data practices. So reports Bloomberg.
Read more...Planned Parenthood Data Breach Exposes 400,000 Patients
- Friday, 10 December 2021
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Planned Parenthood’s Los Angeles branch has warned that it suffered a data breach impacting roughly 400,000 patients. So reports the Associated Press.
Read more...Danish Turbine Giant Vestas Divulges Ransomware Attack
- Thursday, 02 December 2021
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Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has revealed that a cybersecurity incident affecting its systems on November 19 was a ransomware attack. So reports Wind Power Monthly.
Read more...Millions of Flubot Malware Text Messages Descend on Finland
- Thursday, 02 December 2021
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Authorities in Finland are warning that millions of text messages with links to banking malware called Flubot are targeting Finnish mobile devices. So report Bloomberg and ThreatPost.
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