11 Jan 2021
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 01/11/2021

Russian Hacker Sentenced To 12 Years In Prison For Involvement In Massive Network Intrusions At U.S. Financial Institutions, Brokerage Firms, A Major News Publication, And Other Companies Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ANDREI TYURIN, a/k/a “Andrei Tiurin,” was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 144 months in prison for computer intrusion, wire fraud, bank fraud, and illegal online gambling offenses in connection with…
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23 Oct 2020
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 10/23/2020

Quibi is shutting down Quibi — the shortform mobile-focused streaming service — is shutting down after just over six months of operation, making it one of the shortest-lived streaming services to date, according to The Wall Street Journal. The company since confirmed that it’ll be shutting down in a Medium post from Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman. “We feel that we’ve exhausted all our options. As a result we have reluctantly come to the difficult decision to wind down the…
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19 Feb 2020
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 2/19/2020

1 - IRS Urges Taxpayers to Enable Multi-Factor Authentication The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Security Summit partners urged tax professionals and taxpayers today to enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) in their tax preparation software products to defend against data theft. "Already, nearly two dozen tax practitioner firms have reported data thefts to the IRS this year," the IRS said. "Use of the multi-factor authentication feature is a free and easy way to protect clients and practitioners' offices…
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