A data breach involving the Dutch city of Eindhoven left the personal information related to almost all of its citizens exposed. And then they chose not to tell the affected 221,511 people about it. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

The British Government is proposing sweeping change in its approach to ransomware attacks, proposing mandatory reporting by victims and licensing regime for all payments. Read more in my article on the Exponential-e blog.

A scammer has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for laundering over US $4.5 million obtained by targeting businesses and the elderly with Business Email Compromise (BEC) and romance fraud schemes. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.

iPhone photos come back from the dead! Scarlett Johansson sounds upset about GPT-4o, and there's a cockup involving celebrity fakes. All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by special guest Anna Brading of Malwarebytes....

The United States Department of Justice has dealt a blow to dark web drug traffickers by arresting a man alleged to operate the dark web drugs marketplace Incognito Market. According to a DOJ press release, the alleged operator of a darknet platform sold over $100 million worth of narcotics worldwide. Read more in my article on the...

US businesses are believed to have recruited thousands of North Korean IT workers, sending earnings (and potentially data) to North Korea. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.