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Given the "when" not "if" nature of cybersecurity incidents, college executives and administrators need to acknowledge the importance of the topic and invite the experts in regularly to educate them on whats to be done.

Ransomware gang leaks data from Stanford, Maryland universities By Personal and financial information stolen from Stanford Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB), and the University of California was leaked online by the Clop ransomware group. The threat actors obtained the documents after hacking the universities Accellion File Transfer Appliance (FTA) software used to share and store sensitive information. Data stolen in the attack targeting Stanford Medicines Accellion server inc...

Booking.Coms GDPR Fine Should Serve as Wake-Up Call Twitter Get Permission The 475,000 euro ($560,000) fine levied this week against hotel booking site Booking.com by Dutch privacy authorities should serve as a "wake-up call" for other companies when it comes to following the rules of the EUs General Data Protection Regulation laws, some experts say. On Wednesday, the Dutch Data Protection Authority announced the fine against Booking.com, which is headquartered in Amsterdam. The Dutch Data Pr...

Impact of Suez Canal Crisis on Companies Around The World Expected to Last Several Weeks From:   Crisis management expert and author said today the impact and significance of a crisis can last long after the incident itself has ended, which is expected to be the case now th...

Photo: Sean Gallup (Getty Images) A number of prominent U.S. colleges have become the newest, unlucky recipients of a cybersecurity migraine currently affecting dozens of organizations all over the world. Advertisement You may have heard something about Accellion—the global cloud provider whose secure-file transfer product (called FTA) was beset by a hacking campaign back in December. If you haven’t heard about it, you can read a recent run-down of the whole trainwreck here. All you really...

Hackers Set Up a Fake Cybersecurity Firm to Target Security Experts A North Korean government-backed campaign targeting cybersecurity researchers with malware has re-emerged with new tactics in their arsenal as part of a fresh social engineering attack. In an update shared on Wednesday, Googles Threat Analysis Group said the attackers behind the operation set up a fake security company called SecuriElite and a slew of social media accounts across Twitter and LinkedIn in an attempt to trick unsu...

Mobikwik Data breach: RBI orders forensic audit of systems by certified auditor The central bank has asked Mobikwik for an immediate investigation conducted by an agency accredited by the CERT-IN. File photo Updated: Apr 1, 2021, 03:40 PM IST The case of a data breach of users from the popular online payment Mobikwik app is now catching on. Taking cognizance in the case of leakage of information of crores of users, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has ordered an inq...

Claudia Natanson, chair of the U.K. Cyber Security Councils board of trustees (Photo: LinkedIn) The U.K. Cyber Security Council, a self-regulatory body for the cybersecurity education and skills sector that began operations Wednesday, is designed to help "close the skills gap," says Claudia Natanson, chair of the councils board of trustees. The council will be "an indispensable resource that will influence and be a source of expert advice for all levels of government, industry and academia," sh...

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DeepDotWeb Admin Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering Charges DeepDotWeb (DDW), a "news" website that "served as a gateway to numerous dark web marketplaces." According to the unsealed court documents, Tal Prihar, 37, an Israeli citizen residing in Brazil, operated DDW alongside Michael Phan, 34, of Israel, starting October 2013, in return for which they received kickbacks from the operators of the marketplaces in the form of virtual currency amounting to 8,155 bitcoins (worth $8.4 million at th...