Because I had no idea how some things work when a convicted defendant is a foreign national who is supposed to pay restitution, and because I found some elements of Nathan Wyatt’s sentence confusing, I followed up with the U.S. Department of Justice on his sentence (see my previous post about his guilty plea...
Robbie Harb reports: Uncle Sam’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has taken the unusual step of issuing an emergency directive that gives US government agencies a four-day deadline to roll out a Windows Server patch. The directive, issued on September 18, demanded that executive agencies to take “immediate and emergency action” to patch CVE-2020-1472, the...
Ben Butler reports: The federal information commissioner is investigating a potential data breach at one of Australia’s biggest tenancy blacklists, run by Sydney company Trading Reference Australia (TRA). TRA has moved to stymie the investigation, obtaining a federal court injunction that quashes an order from the commissioner that it hand over information about the...
Lucian Constantin reports: WastedLocker is a ransomware program that started hitting businesses and other organizations in May 2020 and is known for its high ransom demands reaching millions of dollars per victim. It is the creation of a group of highly skilled cybercriminals that have been operating for over a decade despite being criminally...
Big Game Hunting: Now in Russia