Lawmakers in the state of Maryland are considering making it a criminal offense to be in possession of ransomware. A bill was introduced on Tuesday, January 14, that seeks to penalize Marylanders who knowingly possess the malware and intend to

Japanese company Mitsubishi Electric has today disclosed an information leak that occurred over six months ago. The century-old electronics and electrical equipment manufacturing firm announced the breach by issuing a brief statement on its website. An official internal investigation was

The USA is considering legislation that would protect local governments by requiring the appointment of a cybersecurity leader for each state. Backers of the Cybersecurity State Coordinator Act of 2020 say the proposed law will improve intelligence sharing between state

Data protection regulators have imposed EUR114m ($126m/GBP97m) in monetary fines under the GDPR for a wide range of infringements, according to new findings from DLA Piper. Whilst not all fines were related to data breach infringements, DLA Piper’s latest GDPR

Under-fire foreign currency firm Travelex has claimed its first customer-facing services in the UK have gone live after a crippling ransomware attack in December, with experts suggesting an unpatched VPN bug may have been to blame. The London-headquartered business has

The number of London councils reporting lost or stolen mobile computing devices has more than doubled over the past three financial years, according to new Freedom of Information (FOI) data. Think tank Parliament Street compiled responses from 23 out of

Citrix has begun issuing patches for a serious vulnerability in its Application Delivery Controller (ADC) product which experts have warned is being exploited in the wild. The tech giant revealed the CVE-2019-19781 bug in ADC and its Citrix Gateway back

Attacks on Citrix servers are intensifying, one of the threat actors behind them is patching them and installing its own backdoor to lock out other attackers. Security experts are monitoring a spike in the number of attacks against Citrix servers

Microsoft issued a warning about critical IE Zero Day vulnerability that actively exploited in wide and warns millions of Windows users A critical remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the scripting engine handles objects in memory in

Turkish hackers hijacked for more than 1 hour the official websites of the Greek parliament, some ministries, as well as the country’s stock exchange. While eastern Libya ports controlled by commander Khalifa Haftar are shutting down oil exports, the group

An American company dedicated to thwarting cyber-attacks has been snapped up by a global private equity firm. Skyview Capital, LLC announced its acquisition of Fidelis Cybersecurity, Inc yesterday. Fidelis is located in the Maryland town of Bethesda, which a 2015

Oracle has hit an all-time record for number of security fixes issued in a critical patch update (CPU), providing sysadmins with over 330 in its first quarterly release of the decade. The enterprise software giant issued 334 patches in total

Equifax could end up paying as much as $9.5bn following a data breach settlement branded one of the largest in history by its presiding judge. The credit reporting giant suffered a major cyber-attack in 2017 after hackers exploited an unpatched

The FBI has joined forces with the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) and other law enforcers to suspend a popular website which sells access to stolen data. The WeLeakInfo[.]com domain was seized by the Feds after the District Court for