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The Ransom Disclosure Act would give victims 48 hours to report payments Victims of ransomware attacks in the United States may soon have to report any payments to hackers within 48 hours, according to a new legislation proposal titled the ‘Ransom Disclosure Act’. The bill was drafted by U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Deborah
Fired IT Admin Revenge-hacks School By Wiping Data, Changing Passwords A 29-year old wiped data on systems of a secondary school in the U.K. and changed the passwords at an IT company, in retaliatory cyber attacks for being fired. As a result of his actions, the school’s systems could no longer be accessed and remote
Google To Auto-enroll 150 Million User Accounts Into 2FA Google announced today that they plan on auto-enrolling 150 million accounts into two-factor authentication by the end of 2021. To protect Google accounts from unauthorized access, it is possible to enroll in an optional security feature called two-factor authentication, or as Google likes to call it,
The Telegraph Exposes 10 TB Database With Subscriber Info ‘The Telegraph’, one of the UK’s largest newspapers and online media outlets, has leaked 10 TB of data after failing to properly secure one of its databases. The exposed information includes internal logs, full subscriber names, email addresses, device info, URL requests, IP addresses, authentication tokens,