Chetrice Mosley-Romero, who was appointed as Indiana’s first cybersecurity director in 2017, will continue helping the state agencies and local government entities strengthen their cybersecurity postures.
Microsoft said the attackers were focused on “disruption and publicity” and likely used rented cloud infrastructure and virtual private networks to bombard Microsoft servers from so-called botnets of zombie computers around the globe.
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The leak creates more challenges for billionaire Elon Musk, who bought Twitter last October for $44 billion and took the company private. Since then, it has been engulfed in chaos, with massive layoffs and advertisers fleeing.
A broker on an online crime forum claimed to have records on 170,000 DC Health Link customers and was offering them for sale for an unspecified amount.
The insurance holding company says all of its systems are back online following the Feb. 9 discovery of a ransomware attack that affected several of its subsidiary firms. But it hasn’t yet said how many individuals might have be affected by the attack.
The expected action is the latest effort by the White House to target China’s military and technology sectors at a time of increasingly fraught relations between the world’s two biggest economies.
T-Mobile, which has been has been hacked multiple times in recent years, said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that the breach was discovered Jan. 5.
While account passwords were not leaked, malicious hackers could use the email addresses to try to reset people’s passwords, or guess them if they are commonly used or reused with other accounts.
States began investigating after a 2018 Associated Press story that found that Google continued to track people’s location data even after they opted out of such tracking by disabling a feature the company called “location history.”
The blockage came on the same day that Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita sued TikTok, claiming the video-sharing platform misleads its users, particularly children, about the level of inappropriate content and security of consumer information.
Marion-based Indiana Wesleyan University said it plans to continue operating Eleven Fifty Academy as a not-for-profit organization, with new classes beginning early next year.
After years of delay under government pressure, Apple said it will offer fully encrypted backups of photos, chat histories and most other sensitive user data in its cloud storage system worldwide, putting them out of reach of most hackers, spies and law enforcement.
FBI Director Chris Wray warned Friday that control of the popular video sharing app is in the hands of a Chinese government “that doesn’t share our values.”
Executive Director Marcia Lewis said an investigation by information technology security experts, law enforcement, and the agency’s IT service providers is underway, and the attack was still ongoing as of Wednesday.
Alcohol delivery app Drizly has agreed to tighten its data security and limit data collection to resolve federal regulators’ allegations that its security failures exposed the personal information of some 2.5 million customers.
The program will offer local government entities free cybersecurity assessments conducted by representatives from Purdue and IU. The state has provided $3.96 million to fund the program.
The company helps insurance carriers collect the data needed to underwrite insurance policies.
The ruling raises difficult privacy and security questions related to how the digital surveillance economy might be used to track women seeking health care services.
More than 80 million Indiana medical records have been breached since 2009, a new study shows. Much of that was due to one massive incident involving insurance company Anthem Inc. (now called Elevance Health Inc.) in 2015.
