Sen. Richard Blumenthal speaks on July 11 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Bonnie Cash/Getty Images) Sen. Blumenthal wants FCC to get busy on telecom wiretap security rules The subcommittee chair said the FCC has the ability to act now in response to Salt Typhoon targeting the 2024 presidential campaigns. Nov 19, 2024 By Tim Starks
UnitedHealth Group, Inc. CEO Andrew Witty appears before House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations at the Rayburn House Office Building on May 1 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images) Change Healthcare breach affected 100 million Americans, marking a new record The company notified the Health and Human Services Department about the figure this week, the first it has specified. Oct 25, 2024 By Tim Starks
The Marriott Downtown Orlando hotel on March 8, 2006. (Photo by Julia Beverly/Getty Images) Marriott agrees to pay $52 million settlement, improve data security practices The actions will settle investigations into security failures that led to overlapping data breaches affecting hundreds of millions of customers. Oct 10, 2024 By Derek B. Johnson
(Mike Mozart / Flickr) T-Mobile reaches $31.5 million settlement with FCC over past data breaches The telecom will pay half in the form of a fine, while the other half will serve as a down payment for improvements to data security and… Sep 30, 2024 By Derek B. Johnson
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks from the Oval Office of the White House on July 24. (Photo by Evan Vucci-Pool/Getty Images) Biden’s cybersecurity legacy: ‘a big shift’ to private sector responsibility Over the course of his term, Joe Biden has presided over an ambitious agenda on regulation and more, to both praise and criticism. Jul 29, 2024 By Tim Starks
The logo of the French national commission for computer technologies and liberty, or CNIL, as seen in Paris in 2010. (ETIENNE LAURENT/AFP via Getty Images) French privacy regulator slaps Facebook, Google with fines totaling nearly $240M The CNIL hit the tech giants over their policy on cookies. Jan 6, 2022 By Tim Starks
(L-R) Chairman of National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) Todd Harper, Chairman of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Jelena McWilliams and Acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael Hsu testify during a hearing before Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee at Dirksen Senate Office Building August 3, 2021. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Banks must report major cyber incidents within 36 hours under finalized regulation Industry won some concessions in the final version of the rule, which banks must comply with by May. Nov 19, 2021 By Tim Starks
(Tim Evanson / Flickr) SolarWinds hack spotlights a thorny legal problem: Who to blame for espionage? It could take years for the cases to play out in court. Dec 30, 2020 By Tim Starks
(NASA / Getty Images) Grid regulator warns utilities of risk of SolarWinds backdoor, asks how exposed they are The hunt for information related to the suspected Russian hacking operation is very much ongoing in the private sector, too. Dec 23, 2020 By Sean Lyngaas
(Pixabay) Twitter fined nearly $550,000 in Europe for response to bug that exposed private tweets The decision stems from a bug that allowed thousands of people's private tweets to be made public between late 2014 and early 2019. Dec 15, 2020 By Joe Warminsky