14 Nov 2024
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 11/14/2024

Our heat map shows sectors with $7.1 trillion in debt face heightened cyber risk Cyber risk in the telecommunications, airlines, and power generation industries shifts to the highest level in our latest cyber heat map. Numerous other sectors, including manufacturing, education, medical products, mass transit, and ports, also show more acute risk than in our 2022 heat map, either due to rising exposure or weaker oversight than in other industries. Together, these sectors account for…
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11 Nov 2024
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 11/11/2024

FBI says hackers are sending fraudulent police data requests to tech giants to steal people’s private information  The FBI is warning that hackers are obtaining private user information — including emails and phone numbers — from U.S.-based tech companies by compromising government and police email addresses to submit “emergency” data requests. The FBI’s public notice filed this week is a rare admission from the federal government about the threat from fraudulent emergency data requests, a legal process designed…
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23 Aug 2024
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 8/23/2024

FCC Slaps Telecom Firm With $1M Fine for Spreading Fake Biden Robocall The Federal Communications Commission has fined Lingo Telecom $1 million for transmitting robocalls impersonating President Joe Biden earlier this year, where an AI replica of Biden's voice was used to trick and persuade voters in the New Hampshire primary election not to go to the polls. Lingo Telecom mislabeled and distributed the robocalls, which were commissioned by a former political consultant who now faces a $6 million…
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