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Theme park operator Six Flags Great America has agreed to pay $36m to settle a class-action lawsuit concerning the gathering and collection of its customers' biometric data. Filed in Lake County, Illinois, the lawsuit alleges that the use of finger-scanning equipment used at Six Flags entry...

A security incident at an Ohio Medicaid provider last month may have resulted in the theft of personal data. On Monday, the Ohio Department of Medicaid warned that an unknown party had accessed data in the care of Maximus for two days in May without authorization. Maximus was hired by the...

Police in California are sharing information on their usage of Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) technology in a unique stab at transparency. The Piedmont Police Department (PPD) in Alameda County is the first to launch a public ALPR Transparency Portal that reveals information on...

Millions of the UK’s small businesses aren’t confident they can withstand a cyber-attack, with resources frequently diverted to other areas, according to new research from Arctic Wolf. The security operations vendor polled over 500 decision-makers in the UK working at firms with fewer than 250...

US organizations that choose to pay a ransom to their online extorters may be eligible to claim the money back from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), it has emerged. A report from The Associated Press over the weekend cited tax lawyers and accountants who claimed the little-known clause could...

Former health secretary Matt Hancock is facing further pressure this week after Labour called for an investigation into his alleged use of personal email to conduct official government business. Hancock was forced to resign after CCTV footage leaked last week showed the married Tory MP in a...

When the Colonial Pipeline shut down for six days due to a ransomware attack in early May, it triggered gas price spikes and widespread panic-buying. Consumers queued up at service stations as leaders from airline executives to governors scrambled to address the looming fuel shortage. Most of...

Classified Ministry of Defence (MoD) documents have reportedly been discovered at a bus stop in southern England, raising concerns over national security. Nearly 50 pages were found by a member of the public behind the bus stop in Kent last Tuesday and shown to the BBC. They are said to...

Mercedes Benz has released details of a data breach affecting customers and prospective buyers in the US. The luxury carmaker said a vendor had informed the company on June 11 that the information was “inadvertently made accessible on a cloud storage platform.” It appears that a third-party...

On October 28 2020, hackers attacked the University of Vermont (UVM) Medical Center in Burlington. According to the hospital, the hackers hit some 5000 computer systems and 1300 servers with a ransomware attack, first shutting down internal hospital applications, then targeting its electronic...

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The cyber-criminal gang DarkSide, which allegedly disbanded after carrying out the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, may not stay dark for long, according to a report by CNBC. Key government cybersecurity and counterintelligence officials told the news source that if the gang has actually...

A hacker who launched a long-running cyber-attack against a New Hampshire police department has been sent to prison for a year and a day. Wayne Kenney Jr. broke into the computer systems of the Farnum Center, the Auburn Police Department (APD) and several department employees in 2015 after...

Nearly three-quarters (72%) of cybersecurity professionals are concerned about supply chain risks to their organization following high-profile incidents like the SolarWinds campaign, according to a new poll. Run by the Infosecurity Europe trade show, which is owned by the same company as...

Nearly three-quarters of security operations (SecOps) leaders say their home lives are being impacted by the stresses of alert overload, according to a new global study from Trend Micro. The security vendor polled over 2300 cybersecurity decision-makers that run Security Operations Centers...

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has warned British internet users to protect their streaming accounts ahead of a summer of sport. The GCHQ offshoot warned that such accounts can hold a trove of valuable personal and financial information for threat actors to harvest and use to make...

A new charity initiative, which aims to raise money for two organizations that help tackle online child abuse and cybercrime respectively, has been announced by a group of cybersecurity professionals based in the UK and US. Infostep 2021 will see 25 volunteers from the Infostep Challenge group...

American multinational technology company Microsoft says that the threat group behind the Microsoft and SolarWinds hack has launched a massive new phishing campaign targeting government agencies, NGOs and think tanks. Last year, an advanced persistent threat (APT) group exploited...

A scammer who defrauded elderly American computer users by tricking them into believing that their computers had suffered a cyber-attack will be spending the next three years in federal prison. Himanshu Asri, of Delhi, India, took part in a five-year telemarketing scheme that conned around...

The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a flash warning Thursday over the exploitation of Fortinet vulnerabilities by advanced persistent threat (APT) groups. According to the FBI, an APT actor group has "almost certainly" been exploiting a FortiGate appliance since at least...