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Realistic-looking emails are aimed at duping QuickBooks users to share their legitimate financial data or provide access to their accounts, warns Intuit, the makers of the popular accounting software.

The lockdown feature, which comes amid a lawsuit filed by Apple against the prominent surveillance contractor after its software was used by several governments to monitor dissidents, could bring pushback from law enforcement.

Finance Company Inc. (PFC), an accounts receivable management company that supports various organizations, disclosed it would notify customers whose information may have been involved in a breach earlier this year.

Maastricht University paid a ransom worth €200,000 in 2019 and is set to receive recovered funds from the criminals' account now worth €500,000.

Experts believe quantum computers capable of breaking classic public-key encryption are still years away from reality. For the federal government, however, the future is now and NIST is working to quickly enshrine the new algorithms into U.S. cryptography standards and clear the way for federal adoption.

CyberRisk Alliance Business Intelligence study finds that too many businesses lack an API strategy — and most businesses need to get the security team more involved.

According to Moody’s, a bond credit ratings business that now regularly tracks the economic fallout from cyberattacks, the news headlines and surface damage done to Costa Rican IT infrastructure has overshadowed a more complex picture.