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Two US Navy service members appeared in federal court Thursday accused of espionage and stealing sensitive military information for China in separate cases. According to Uncle Sam, Wei had been handing off photos, videos, and technical manuals about US Navy ships and systems since February 2022.
The root of the problem is that shared CPU components, like the internal memory system, combine attacker data and data from any other application, resulting in a combined leakage signal in the power consumption. Whether just suffering a ransomware attack is inevitably enough to be a material data breach.
Serco Inc, the Americas division of multinational outsourcing company Serco Group, has disclosed a data breach after attackers stole the personal information of over 10,000 individuals from a third-party vendor's MoveIT managed file transfer server. "On June 30, 2023, Serco was made aware that our third-party benefits administration provider, CBIZ, experienced a ransomware attack and data breach," the company explained.
After the release of a National Cybersecurity Strategy and its implementation plan, the Biden-Harris Administration has unveiled the National Cyber Workforce and Education Strategy, "Aimed at addressing both immediate and long-term cyber workforce needs." Transform cyber education by building and leveraging ecosystems to improve cyber education, expanding competency-based cyber education, investing in educators, and making cyber education and training more affordable and accessible.
As if attacks from China weren't enough, one of the Air Force's own has reportedly gone rogue The US government is fighting a pair of cyber security incidents, one involving Chinese spies who...
Infosec in brief US senator Ron Wyden thinks it's Microsoft's fault that Chinese hackers broke into Exchange Online, and he wants three separate government agencies to launch investigations and "Hold Microsoft responsible for its negligent cyber security practices." The Chinese hack of Microsoft's hosted email service, you may recall, occurred because suspected Chinese hackers were able to steal an encryption key used for Microsoft account services.
Cripes, they actually sound serious Public companies that suffer a computer crime likely to cause a "material" hit to an investor will soon face a four-day time limit to disclose the incident,...
Legislation moves slowly, but in 2023 almost all five of the below regulations will take effect, making it a huge year for state data privacy acts. Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act: The second state privacy act, passed in March of 2021 and went into effect on January 1st of 2023.
Seven US artificial intelligence giants - Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI - have publicly committed to "Help move toward safe, secure, and transparent development of AI technology." Test the security of their AI systems before launch Share knowledge about AI risk management best practices among themselves and with the government.
A stolen Microsoft security key may have allowed Beijing-backed spies to break into a lot more than just Outlook and Exchange Online email accounts. Microsoft still, to the best of our knowledge, does not know how this incredibly powerful private signing key was obtained, and has revoked that key.