Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance Deal Prepped With Feds and State Attorneys General, Wall Street Journal Reports Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • July 22, 2019 Credit reporting giant Equifax is reportedly negotiating a settlement to resolve many federal and state probes into its massive 2017 data breach. See Also: Webinar | The Future of Adaptive Authentication in Financial Services The settlement could be in the…
Encryption & Key Management , Endpoint Security , Fraud Management & Cybercrime GAO Makes More Security Recommendations; IRS Now Has 127 Issues to Resolve Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • July 19, 2019 (Photo: Joshua Doubek via Wikicommons/CC) The Internal Revenue Services’ internal financial reporting systems and IT infrastructure have 14 new security vulnerabilities, along with a long list of previously unresolved deficiencies, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office….
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BlackBerry Cylance has prepared an update for its CylancePROTECT product to address a recently disclosed bypass method, but the company has downplayed the impact of the issue. Australia-based cybersecurity firm Skylight reported last week that its researchers had found a way to trick Cylance’s AI-based antivirus engine into classifying malicious files as benign. They discovered what they described as a universal bypass method that involved taking strings from a certain…
A former National Security Agency contractor who stored two decades’ worth of classified documents at his Maryland home was sentenced Friday to nine years in prison. Harold Martin, 54, apologized to the federal judge who sentenced him for a theft that prosecutors have called “breathtaking” in scope. “My methods were wrong, illegal and highly questionable,” Martin told U.S. District Judge Richard Bennett. The punishment was in line with the nine-year…
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