CIOs will need to consider how many years of data need to be retained, taking into account statutory requirements for different countries, length of time data needs to be held, and what data is no longer required. “If you don’t spend time doing that, you’re just taking all the poor habits of the legacy systems and you’re not going to get the benefit of the new system,” Bilali says. Clean data helps systems run more…

An Alabama man has been handed 14 months behind bars after hacking an SEC social media account to post fake news about Bitcoin. Eric Council Jr., 26, of Huntsville, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit aggravated identity theft and access device fraud back in February, after the incident took place in January 2024. According to court documents, he created a fake identity card using personally identifiable information (PII) of the victim obtained from co-conspirators. He…

An April breach at the UK’s Legal Aid Agency resulted in the theft of a large volume of personal information belonging to applicants, including criminal records, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has admitted. The agency, which provides citizens with access to vital civil and criminal legal services, first became aware of the attack on April 23. However, on Friday it discovered the extent of the breach was much greater than at first thought and has temporarily…

A new era of inconceivably fast quantum machines is not far away, with computers almost ready to completely transform the way we solve problems, communicate, and compute. However, this transformation is not all positive, and the cybersecurity industry fears that functional quantum computers will be able to break even the strongest encryption we have today, rendering today’s security infrastructure obsolete. Looking back, most public-key algorithms rely on mathematical problems that are easy to solve in…

There are ghosts in the machine. Not the poetic kind. I mean literal, running-code-with-root-access kind. The kind that was set up ten years ago by an admin who retired five jobs ago. The kind that still wakes up every night at 3:30 a.m.; processes something no one remembers, and then quietly vanishes into the system logs. Until, of course, something goes wrong—or someone takes advantage of it. Welcome to the world of dead man’s scripts:…