Dutch cybercrime police have a message for almost 30 users of an on-demand distributed denial-of-service site: We see what you're doing; now cut it out or we're going to arrest you. And not for the first time, the move shows police in Europe emphasizing ethical hacking pursuits instead for young adults.
An Illinois man has been found guilty of running subscription-based distributed denial-of-service attacks that enabled customers to launch DDoS strikes of their own. He is now facing a statutory maximum sentence of 35 years in federal prison when sentenced in January 2022.
One of those responsible for the massive Mirai-based DDoS attack launched in October 2016 that targeted domain name resolver Dyn and knocked Amazon, PayPal, Spotify, Twitter and others offline has pleaded guilty to federal charges.
The FBI has arrested a suspect who's charged in connection with waging distributed denial-of-service attacks against the campaign website of an unsuccessful 2018 Democratic candidate for the U.S. House in California.
Whether you're a large enterprise that has experienced a headline data breach or a midmarket organization that has just been paralyzed by ransomware, you share points in common. Which law enforcement agency do I call after the incident has been discovered? When do I involve legal counsel? What resources are available...
Cyber threats pervade almost every aspect of our lives today creating risks that have huge potential impacts on legal and compliance matters. Should we be more concerned? Should we be more aggressive in our pursuit of solutions? Join Dr. Ed Amoroso, former CISO of AT&T and current CEO of TAG Cyber, as he walks us...
A federal jury has convicted a hacktivist who launched DDoS attacks in 2014 on Boston Children's Hospital and another local facility to protest a controversial child custody case.
There is a lot to say about the disorganized way most cyber incident claims are currently handled. Instead, adopting a project management approach will make better use of resources and lead to several benefits.
To this point, many incidents have traditionally been handled with a "lawyer-heavy" approach, but the...
Eduard Goodman, global privacy officer of CyberScout, doesn't like the disorganized way most cyber incidents are handled now. Instead, he would like to see a more project management approach. Here are the benefits he foresees.
We all know that May 25 was the enforcement deadline for Europe's General Data Protection Regulation. But what impact will General Data Protection Regulation have on cybersecurity programs?
GDPR, or the "Y2K" of our era, is part of a larger conversation that's been catalyzed by a lot of the recent news around...
We all know about May 25 and the enforcement deadline for Europe's General Data Protection Regulation. But what impact will GDPR have on cybersecurity programs? Danny Rogers of Terbium Labs weighs in on the topic.
The U.S. Federal Government wants its agencies to modernize their IT systems, primarily by maximizing the use of cloud platforms. But IT teams are finding this transformation challenging. Investing in IT modernization can lead to more agility, improved resilience and security and, in the long term, better citizen...
CynergisTek's 2018 report aggregated ratings from security assessments performed at hundreds of healthcare organizations in 2017 to reveal an average 45% conformance with NIST Cybersecurity Framework (NIST CSF). The report found that of the NIST CSF five Core Elements, organizations had the lowest ratings in detecting...
Government cyber teams must adopt a modern and evolving security operations model and an analytics-driven approach to cybersecurity if they hope to keep pace with the evolving threat landscape.
With advances in big data, artificial intelligence, machine learning and more, healthcare is primed to innovate. But do HIPAA, GDPR and other regulatory standards inhibit the ability to innovate? This whitepaper discusses healthcare's complex convergence of innovation and compliance.
While this is a very...
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