A significant amount of U.N. Development Programme data related to its staff and internal operations was stolen in a ransomware attack, CyberScoop reports. While the agency did not detail what types of data was stolen, hackers reportedly were able to "access a number of servers" that contained "a la...

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South Africa's Department of Public Service and Administration Minister Noxolo Kiviet approved a directive on data management. The directive is a "legal instrument to give effect to the mainstreaming of knowledge management and data management in the public service." It aims to increase the developm...

Ransomware group RansomHub claimed it is selling U.S. citizen's medical and financial records following a cyberattack on Change Healthcare, Wired reports. Emsisoft Threat Analyst Brett Callow said it is likely an attempt to collect additional ransom payments from the health care companies involved i...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission's Office of Technology wrote about how to strengthen data security systems to avoid punishable data breaches. The advisory discusses vulnerabilities that include cross-site scripting, structured query language injections and buffer overflows.Full story...