News
Google to cough up $700m in antitrust settlement
Google has settled with a number of US states over a lawsuit regarding its handling of Android apps and pricing. The total fee will tally out at $700m
News
Feds bust Blackcat malware ring
The US department of justice has busted up a prolific ransomware as a service ring that targeted hundreds of companies
News
NSA updates software guidelines
The NSA has posted a new set of cybersecurity guidelines for government agencies
MongoDB
MongoDB hacked: Hints at authentication system compromise
Attackers had access to certain corporate systems “for some period of time before discovery”
SEC
New SEC cyber rules are go...
Firms need to disclose any cybersecurity incident they determine to be material and to describe the material aspects of the incident's nature, scope, and timing within four days.
ERP
HMG puts massive £500m ERP contract out to tender
An early Christmas present for Systems Integrators and their SaaS partners as a ten-year ERP centralisation contract lands
News
Google praised for rollout of anti-tracking policy updates
Google has won praise from the Electronic Frontier Foundation after it issued a new set of policies and default settings for its Location History feature that could limit police overreach in surveillance and search
cybercrime
Microchargers charged for chump change charges
The DOJ has launched a legal campaign against what it says are a network of fraudsters that thrive on extracting micropayment charges in order to avoid detection by banks
News
'Tis the season: Box gifts customers an early weekend with Friday outage
File sharing and collaboration service Box fell victim to an extended outage that affected all of its services on Friday
banks
Europe's banks steel themselves for a tough ECB cyber resilence test after blistering criticism
"Institutions continue to report gaps in risk control areas considered fundamental to cyber hygiene, such as proper identity and access management, timely vulnerability patching or network security"
AI
Dropbox’s AI integration with OpenAI turns into a messaging mess – as Amazon’s CTO apologises over data protection post
"To data scientists and developers in the domain, the answers to these questions may be laughably obvious and the questions naive, but to most end-users they will not be."
central government
UK government eyes data centre security overhaul; may consider it CNI, create a new regulator
"Risks have also been identified in relation to data centre customer access to sites and facilities, and access by contractors or those providing supply chain services..."