Ransomware negotiator investigated over criminal gang kickbacks

If someone is going to negotiate with criminals for you, that person should at least be on your side. That might not have been the case at Digital Mint, a ransomware negotiation company where one worker allegedly went rogue. According to Bloomberg, Digital Mint is cooperating with the US Departme...

School Employee Allegedly Framed a Principal With Racist Deepfake Rant

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Amazon Fires Employee Who Leaked Customer Names, Emails

Amazon has fired an employee who shared customers’ names and email addresses with a third party. An Amazon spokesperson told Threatpost that it has systems in place to limit and control access to information, and processes in place for identifying and investigating suspicious behavior. These...

4 Ring Employees Fired For Spying on Customers

Smart doorbell company Ring said that it has fired four employees over the past four years for inappropriately accessing customer video footage. The disclosure comes in a recent letter to senators in response to a November inquiry into the company’s data policies from Amazon-owned Ring as it...

'Terrific Employee' Fired After Losing USB Drive Containing Medical Records

A Maine-based company announced Thursday it fired an otherwise exemplary employee who dowloaded medical data onto a jump drive and then lost the device while traveling between Salt Lake City, Denver and Washington, D.C. The unidentified woman’s termination follows yesterday’s disclosure of a data...

Lessons from Chicago: Bad Policy, Not Geopolitics, Enables IP Theft

One thing that CME Group, the company that runs the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, wants to make perfectly clear is that it places a “high value on protecting its intellectual property and trade secrets.” That was the clear message from CME following the arrest of an employee for stealing company...

WikiLeaks and Corporate Security: Lessons from Recent Data Leaks

WikiLeaks' release of secret government communications should serve as a warning to the nation's biggest companies: You're next. Computer experts have warned for years about the threat posed by disgruntled insiders and poorly crafted security policies that give too much access to confidential dat...

More than 50% of workers stealing data when they leave jobs

Tens of millions of people have lost their jobs in recent months, and a huge number of them are taking proprieatry company data with them when they leave, according to a new study. The study shows that almost 60 percent of people who leave or are fired from a job are swiping information. Brian...