with the NSO Group following allegations that the latter’s Pegasus Spyware had been deployed against 1,400 WhatsApp users in 2019. While the NSO Group had defended its actions by claiming that it had little control over how its customers used its...

are being settled after the company agreed to a US$45 million payout. MGM suffered the first of the two cyber attacks in 2019, exposing the personal data of up to 10.6 million customers. Data included names, emails, phone numbers and birth dates. While...

– which saw a hacker able to completely surveil their victim’s property – was an older device that reached end-of-life in 2019. “We strongly encourage customers to review their systems, and if outdated, replace them with newer models that have been...

stolen data as proof. Morpheus specifically listed Arrotex Pharmaceuticals – one of DBG Health’s business units, created in 2019 via a merger between Apotex Australia and Arrow Pharmaceuticals – as the victim, saying that parties interested in learning...

place with four per cent of all attacks. This remote access Trojan has been used for keylogging and info-stealing since 2019 and is clearly still a popular tool among hackers. Initial access Systems lacking multifactor authentication were the main cause...

accident, adding that these conversations were then disclosed to advertisers to personalise marketing. The case goes back to 2019, when The Guardian in the UK reported that Apple had hired contractors to listen to private conversations captured by Siri,...

following experimental quantum computing these past five years (say, since Google’s original quantum supremacy milestone in 2019), there’s no particular shock here. Since 2019, Google has roughly doubled the number of qubits on its chip and, more...

and Trusted Communications Networks Reimbursement Program, was established in the Secure and Trusted Communications Act 2019. The additional funding has been heavily pushed by FCC chair Jessica Rosenworcel, who wrote to Congress on 2 December saying...

of developing “safe and beneficial artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity”, said the company. However, in 2019, prior to the release of the company’s AI chatbot ChatGPT, the company created a for-profit subsidiary to raise funding, having...

A German court has ruled that those whose data was accessed and exfiltrated by cyber criminals in a 2018–2019 data breach are entitled to compensation. On Monday (18 November), the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) ruled that those affected by a...

Call, a global initiative to limit the spread of extremist and terrorist content online. The Call is named after a 2019 terrorist attack that took place in the New Zealand city of Christchurch that saw 51 people murdered. The attack was streamed live...

NSO’s CEO and chief operating officer at the time that Pegasus was used to infect the devices of 1,400 WhatsApp users in 2019, was also deposed. According to WhatsApp’s filing, he admitted “the actual process for installing Pegasus through WhatsApp was...

to appreciate the Exchange team’s blog title: “You Had Me at EHLO”. Patches for CVE-2024-49040 are available for Exchange 2019 CU13 and CU14, as well as Exchange 2016 CU23. It’s worth remembering that both Exchange 2016 and 2019 have an extended end...

added that the affected customers were limited to those who made purchases on the company’s e-commerce site between 1 July 2019 and 30 June 2020. Samsung also suffered two data breaches in 2022, having been attacked in March 2022 when the Lapsus$...

deadlines for fixing these issues. The audit was conducted as part of the NSW Cyber Security Policy, which was launched in 2019. As part of the NSW Auditor-General’s report released earlier this week (2 October), the state reviewed the cyber security...

Capital after leaving office. Wallace had previously served as the United Kingdom’s Secretary of State for Defence from July 2019 to August 2023, and prior to that as Minister of State for Security at the Home Office from July 2016 to July 2019. The...

appeared to be earning despite being unemployed that drew their attention, according to Kpangkpari. Ayivor was arrested in 2019 but fell ill and died before the case could go to trial while the woman posing as Erskine seemed to disappear once the scam...

of onion services and thus successfully de-anonymise Tor users. V2 and V3 onion addresses were affected at least between Q3/2019 and Q2/2021’. The reporter further claims that ‘law enforcement agencies used so-called timing analyses and broad and...

of developing “safe and beneficial artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity”, said the company. However, in 2019, prior to the release of the company’s AI chatbot ChatGPT, the company created a for-profit subsidiary to raise funding, having...

United States’ Homeland Security Investigations and Interpol, followed up initial reports of the perpetrator, and in 2019, the Western Australia Joint Anti Child Exploitation Team – a collaboration between the AFP and Western Australia Police Force –...