Posts for category: Regional News

Global Weekly Executive Summary, 19 JAN 2018

Dark Caracal Summary A newly discovered global cyberespionage threat group has ties to a government intelligence agency in Lebanon, according to a joint report from Lookout Mobile Security and ...

The New Vulnerabilities Equities Policy and Process Charter

An updated “Vulnerabilities Equities Policy and Process for the United States Government” charter was released on 15 NOV 2017 and describes the decision-making process for determining whether new ...

Global Weekly Executive Summary, 09 NOV 2017

Chinese APTs Renew Corporate Espionage Operations Against US Companies Two years after the US and China agreed not to conduct or support cyber operations against each other in ways that would ...

Global Weekly Executive Summary, 20 OCT 2017

British Intelligence Suspects Iran in Parliament Email Attacks British intelligence now suspects that Iran was the source of the June 2017 brute force attacks against 9,000 UK Parliament email ...

Hawaii Locations Included in Hyatt Hotels Breach

Hyatt Hotels announced that they had been hit with their second payment card breach in as many years. According the a message from Hyatt’s Global President of Operations, this breach involved ...

Global Weekly Executive Summary, 06 OCT 2017

Yahoo Breaches Affected All 3 Billion Accounts The 2013-2016 Yahoo data breaches that affected 1 billion user accounts were infamous for being the largest on record since they were announced in ...

Global Weekly Executive Summary, 29 SEPT 2017

Deloitte Data Breach Multinational accounting and auditing firm Deloitte was the victim of a major cyberattack that lead to unauthorized access to the company’s internal email systems. Staff and ...

Global Weekly Executive Summary, 22 SEPT 2017

Kaspersky Products Banned from US Federal Government Systems The US Department of Homeland Security ordered a purge of all security products originating from Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky ...

Equifax Megabreach Update: How, who, and more

Last week, we reported that the major credit reporting company Equifax announced a massive data breach affecting up to 143 million US customers last week on 7 September, but the developing story over ...

Equifax Breach affects 143 Million in the US

Updated FTC link on: 3/28/2022Equifax Data BreachCredit reporting agency Equifax announced a massive data breach on 7 September that it says could potentially impact 143 million US customers. Equifax ...