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Biden's New Executive Order Looks to Address Data Privacy July 21, 2021 September 30, 2021 Twitter Photo: Ahundt via Pixabay/CC In his latest executive order, President Joe Biden is asking the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to establish new rules over how tech firms can collect and use data from their customers, as a way to offer more privacy protections for American consumers. The focus on how large tech firms such as Facebook, Google and Amazon collect and use consumer data is one part of an executive order that seeks to address a raft of what the White House calls anticompetitive behavior ...

Get Permission Kaseya CEO Fred Voccola has defended his company's actions but acknowledged those affected by a ransomwware attack are "very, very frustrated." (Source: Kaseya) Global software vendor Kaseya worked in earnest for three months to resolve flaws in its VSA monitoring and management software, but ultimately lost the race with ransomware attackers, Dutch researchers say. On Wednesday, the researchers who had found flaws in VSA released a timeline and description of issues that give more context into the engineering challenges Kaseya faced. The researchers, with the Dutch Institut...

Get Permission IT services provider Synnex Corporation, which counts the Republican National Committee as a customer, says on Tuesday that an intrusion attempt against it may be related to Friday's mass ransomware attack. However, Republican National Committee Chief of Staff Richard Walters told Information Security Media Group in an emailed statement that no breach of its systems occurred. “Over the weekend, we were informed that Synnex, a third-party provider, had been breached," Walters says. "We immediately blocked all access from Synnex accounts to our cloud environment. Our team wo...

Kaseya: Up to 1,500 Organizations Hit in Ransomware Attack July 21, 2021 September 30, 2021 Compliance Twitter Screenshot of Kaseya's remote IT management software VSA, which was compromised by ransomware attackers (Source: Kaseya) Software vendor Kaseya said late Monday that it believes 800 to 1,500 organizations - mostly small businesses - were compromised via the sweeping ransomware attack that exploited its VSA remote IT management software. Up to 60 of its own customers were compromised, Kaseya said in an update posted late Monday. Those customers supply IT management services to other...

Biden Orders Investigation of Kaseya Ransomware Attack July 21, 2021 September 30, 2021 Compliance Twitter U.S. President Joe Biden has ordered federal intelligence agencies to investigate the incident involving IT management software vendor Kaseya, which sustained a suspected REvil ransomware attack on Friday. Attackers reportedly compromised Kaseya's remote monitoring system, VSA, forcing the company to urge its managed service provider customers to temporarily shut down their on-premise servers for at least for the next 24 to 48 hours. Kaseya VSA is a remote management platform for MSPs t...