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U.S. places $11 million bounty on Ukrainian ransomware mastermind — Tymoshchuk allegedly stole $18 billion from large companies over 3 years | Tom’s Hardware

Matt — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 10:47:20 +0000

The United States has placed an $11 million bounty on Volodymyr Tymoshchuk, a Ukrainian man wanted for his involvement with a string of ransomware cybercrimes. Tymoshchuk faces severe federal charges for his part in reportedly masterminding the theft of a combined $18 billion over a three year period.

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Data breach hitting PowerSchool looks very, very bad – Ars Technica

Matt — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 19:16:29 +0000

The hack, which came to light earlier this month, hit PowerSchool, a Folsom, California, firm that provides cloud-based software to some 16,000 K–12 schools worldwide. The schools serve 60 million students and employ an unknown number of teachers. Besides providing software for administration, grades, and other functions, PowerSchool stores personal data for students and teachers, with much of that data including Social Security numbers, medical information, and home addresses.

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These were the badly handled data breaches of 2024 | TechCrunch

Matt — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 14:00:48 +0000

For the past few years, TechCrunch has looked back at some of the worst, badly handled data breaches and security incidents in the hope — maybe! — other corporate giants would take heed and avoid making some of the same calamities of yesteryear.

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WordPress.org statement threatens possible shutdown for all of 2025 – Computerworld

Matt — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 16:18:14 +0000

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg on Friday announced a shutdown of almost all services on WordPress.org, the open source project site that’s the home of the software, plugins, and the WordPress community, but was unclear on when the shutdown would end.

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Half a million patients’ personal info stolen in massive health care data breach | Fox News

Matt — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 02:52:16 +0000

CVR has more than 110 branches across the country, from Alabama to Alaska. This breach has affected hundreds of thousands of individuals. According to a notice filed by CVR with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights, more than 445,000 people had their personal information compromised.

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Security outsourcing on the rise as CISOs seek cyber relief | CSO Online

Matt — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 14:21:11 +0000

CISOs are turning to managed security services to take advantage of seasoned practitioners that they would struggle to hire and retain internally.

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The 10 biggest issues CISOs and cyber teams face today | CSO Online

Matt — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 19:24:18 +0000

When the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 2023 charged software company SolarWinds and its CISO, Timothy G. Brown, with fraud and internal control failures, CISOs everywhere took note — as they should. It was the first time the SEC had charged a CISO.

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In a global first, quantum computers crack RSA and AES data encryption – The Brighter Side of News

Matt — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 13:42:29 +0000

This breakthrough, published in the Chinese Journal of Computers, emphasizes that quantum machines are closer than expected to threatening widely used cryptographic systems, including RSA and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).

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Two never-before-seen tools, from same group, infect air-gapped devices – Ars Technica

Matt — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 13:53:43 +0000

“With the level of sophistication required, it is quite unusual that in five years, GoldenJackal managed to build and deploy not one, but two separate toolsets designed to compromise air-gapped systems,” ESET researcher Matías Porolli wrote in Tuesday’s report. “This speaks to the resourcefulness of the group.”

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106 million Americans exposed as massive data leak rocks background check firm | Fox News

Matt — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 01:52:31 +0000

The leaked data included names, emails, IP addresses, user agents, encrypted passwords, partial payment information, home addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, property records, legal records, and family, relatives’ and neighbors’ data as well as employment history. MC2 Data even exposed data of 2,319,873 users who subscribed to its services, including individuals and organizations needing background checks

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