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Law.com: Peter Marta, most recently chief cybersecurity lawyer at JPMorgan Chase & Co., has joined the privacy and cybersecurity practice of Hogan Lovells in New York as a partner, where he plans to help clients handle regulatory issues and cyber threats.
CBC: The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and its Quebec equivalent said the probes will examine whether Desjardins was in compliance with federal and provincial laws around personal information protection.
Mondaq: The Canadian government’s Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (“CCCS”) has released Baseline cybersecurity controls for small and medium organizations in an effort to help small and medium-sized businesses improve their cybersecurity practices and their overall resiliency to cybersecurity threats.
Investment Executive: Fake, unregistered investment schemes and other sorts of scams being touted on social media are the focus of a new investor warning from U.S. derivatives regulators.
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued an advisory warning investors about scammers utilizing social media platforms to lure victims.
ZDNet: Officials from Lake City, Florida, have fired an IT employee last week after the city was forced to approve a gigantic ransomware payment of nearly $500,000 last Monday.
Globe Newswire: The nerve center for electric power transmission in California says that cyberattacks now pose the most serious threat to the grid. According to a June 14 report in the San Diego Union-Tribune, the California Independent System Operator (ISO) is fighting off several millions of attempted intrusions every month. Hubert Hafner, the California ISO’s head of cyber security, said his network is “in the cross-hairs of terrorists and nation-states that want to harm the electric grid.”...
Haaretz: Iran said on Monday it had exposed a large cyber espionage network it alleged was run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and that several U.S. spies had been arrested in different countries as the result of this action. U.S.-Iran tensions are growing following accusations by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration that Tehran last Thursday attacked two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, a vital oil shipping route. Iran denies having any role...
TheGuardian: According to a new report from the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), Cyber Nuclear Weapons Study Group, US nuclear weapons can’t be effectively protected against cyberattacks with technical means alone. “Any system containing a digital component, including nuclear weapons, is vulnerable to cyber threats,” Page Stoutland, NTI’s vice president for scientific and technical affairs, said...
TheGuardian: The American cybersecurity giant Symantec has downplayed a data breach that allowed a hacker to access passwords and a purported list of its clients, including large Australian companies and government agencies. The list extracted in the February incident, seen by Guardian Australia, suggests that all major federal government departments were among the targets of a hacker who also claimed to be responsible for Medicare data being available for sale on the dark web...
IbTimes: The popular online e-inviations and social planning service Evite confirmed falling victim to a data breach. The breach saw a hacker called “Gnosticplayers” put Evite users' personal data up for sale on the dark web. According to ZDNet, the hacker also obtained data from five other companies and put them all up for sale in April. The cybercriminal reportedly hacked and stole data from firms such as Canva, 500px, ShareThis, UnderArmor, GyfCat and more. Gnosticplayers reportedly claimed to have obtained ten million Evite user records, which included users' full names, IP addresses, email addresses and cleartext passwords. ZDNet reported that in April, the hacker Gnosticplayers demanded $1,900 worth of bitcoins for 10 million Evite user records...
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