18 Apr 2024
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 4/18/2024

MGM says FTC can't possibly probe its ransomware downfall MGM Resorts wants the FTC to halt a probe into last year's ransomware infection at the mega casino chain – because the watchdog's boss Lina Khan was a guest at one of its hotels during the cyberattack, apparently. The biz on Monday sued [PDF] the US regulator and its chair, noting the computer network intrusion in September 2023 "cost MGM dearly." That legal complaint, filed in…
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04 Apr 2023
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 04/04/2023

IRS System Doesn’t Meet All Cloud Security Requirements, Watchdog Says  The IRS’s Enterprise Case Management System did not always meet established cloud security requirements, the Treasury Department’s Inspector General found. In a new report, the IG found the IRS did not meet every agency guideline for cloud operations, despite running the ECM system—a hybrid cloud system aimed at modernizing and consolidating the IRS’s legacy case management system—under the agency’s cloud authorization. The system “processes and stores sensitive…
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