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A man from Kansas City could be smoked after he was indicted on criminal hacking charges.

In settling the two breach cases, the auto insurers also agreed to deploy cybersecurity best practices.

More than 116,000 New York residents had their driver's license numbers compromised from Geico's systems following the exploitation of its apps' pre-fill functionality and Application Programming Interface, as well as fraudulent policy purchases and claims filing, beginning November 2020, with the insurer only resolving its systems vulnerabilities by March 2021.

Increasing cybersecurity threats against the U.S. healthcare sector have prompted Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee members Bill Cassidy, R-La., John Cornyn, R-Texas, Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., and Mark Warner, D-Va., to introduce new legislation that would bolster not only the industry's cybersecurity defenses but also healthcare data protections.

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proposed a $734,872 penalty against a smart doorbell manufacturer that was anything but

Numerous cybersecurity-related measures have been advanced by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, led by the Federal Contractor Cybersecurity Vulnerability Reduction Act of 2024, which would mandate the adoption of National Institute of Standards and Technology guidance-adherent vulnerability disclosure policies among federal contractors.

Easterly has led the agency since July 2021 and was instrumental in driving the Secure by Design initiative.

One such spyware firm, RCS Labs, gained attention after its spyware, Hermit, was discovered on devices in Kazakhstan following protests.