Perera is editorial director for news at Information Security Media Group. He previously covered privacy and data security for outlets including MLex and Politico.
Joe Sullivan, the former chief security officer of Uber, will not spend time in prison for his role in impeding a federal investigation into the ride-hailing company's security practices. His sentence is three years of probation and a $50,000 fine.
U.S. authorities revealed the Russian man behind a two-decade span of abetting cybercriminals' theft of credit cards, dismantled his online infrastructure and offered a hefty reward for information leading to his arrest. Prosecutors say the man, Denis Kulkov, ran a service now known as Try2Check.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is seeking tougher sanctions for Facebook after determining that several gaps exist in the company's compliance with a 2020 consent decree mandating privacy improvements. The company will have 30 days to respond and could challenge tougher privacy rules in court.
Prosecutors are urging a U.S. federal judge to sentence former Uber CSO Joe Sullivan to 15 months in prison for his role in impeding an investigation into the ride-hailing company's security practices. Sullivan exploited "his position to cover up a deeply embarrassing event," prosecutors wrote.
A European effort to wrest greater control over the infrastructure underpinning internet encryption has some security experts warning about degraded website security. The European Union is on the cusp of requiring web browsers to honor web certificates known as QWACs.
A Chinese and a Hong Kong national are each under U.S. federal indictment for their roles in channeling cryptocurrency stolen by North Korean hackers into hard currency. Prosecutors also indicted a North Korean man for representing the sanctioned Korea Kwangson Banking Corp.
The North Korean software supply chain attack on a Chicago financial trading software developer infected additional victims besides 3CX, including organizations in the energy sector, says Symantec Threat Hunter Team. One organization is located in the United States, the other in Europe.
North Korean hackers' attack on desktop phone developer 3CX was the fruit of a separate and previously undisclosed supply chain attack on a financial trading software developer, is the conclusion of the Mandiant forensics team brought in to investigate.
Major internet chat platforms are urging the United Kingdom government to reconsider a bill intended to decrease exposure to online harms but which opponents say would open the door to massive government surveillance. Proponents say online platforms should have a duty of care to protect users.
U.S. law enforcement says a troll farm operated by the Chinese Ministry of Public Security used fake Facebook and Twitter accounts to disseminate propaganda and harass dissidents located in the United States. The troll farm was part of a Chinese effort known as the 912 Special Project Working Group.
Silicon Valley giant Google called on tech companies to be more robust in their approach to patching vulnerabilities in an afternoon marked by announcements designed to boost vulnerability research. Google money is supporting the Hacking Policy Council and the Security Research Legal Defense Fund.
A low-profile Israeli advanced spyware firm used a suspected zero-day to surveil the lives of journalists, political opposition figures and a nongovernmental organization worker across multiple continents, say researchers from the Citizen Lab and Microsoft.
Cobalt maker Fortra, Microsoft and the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center obtained a U.S. federal court order redirecting into sinkhole servers the internet traffic from Cobalt Strike-infected computers sent to command-and-control centers controlled by bad actors.
U.S. federal prosecutors say an Estonian man was prepared violate U.S. export regulations by selling a license for penetration testing software to a Russian individual. Andrey Shevlyakov has been on a U.S. blacklist known as the Entity List since 2012.
The FBI and other national police are touting an operation that dismantled Genesis Market, a marketplace used by ransomware hackers and bank thieves to gain ongoing access to victims' computers. Genesis Market since 2018 offered access to more than 1.5 million compromised computers around the world.
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