At one critical infrastructure organization, CISA’s red team got in and kept going. It compromised multiple workstations, elevated its privileges over the domain and began moving laterally into other systems and resources. The security operations center never detected it.
The Justice Department announced three False Claims Act settlements totaling $61.2 million on Aug. 24, resolving allegations against companies working in health care, federal data services and environmental remediation. Tetra Tech paid $57 million. Monogram Health agreed to pay $2.4 million. AiNET Corp. and its former chief executive, agreed to pay $1.8 million.
The Federal Trade Commission and five states have reached a proposed settlement with Zillow and Redfin that would dismantle certain provisions of their 2025 agreement and require Redfin to rebuild the rental advertising business it abandoned. Redfin would have six months after the order becomes final to reenter the market for internet listing services, the websites through which renters search for apartments and property managers advertise them.
APRA’s 2026-27 Corporate Plan puts cyberattacks, artificial intelligence, geopolitical tensions and dependence on common technology providers among the risks demanding closer attention from banks, insurers and superannuation trustees. The plan sets the regulator’s strategic direction for the next four years and, more immediately, its policy and supervisory agenda for the coming 12 to 18 months.
Uber’s software could cut a driver off from the platform for suspected fraud or poor customer ratings. What it did not necessarily do first was ask a person. That has now cost the company €824.99 million.
The Personal Information Protection Commission has opened a public consultation on an overhaul of the country’s privacy protection framework, a review prompted in part by the widening distance between rules built around consent and forms of data processing that have become considerably harder to explain, much less reduce to a series of yes-or-no decisions.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission filed proceedings in the Federal Court on Friday against Subaru, accusing the company of breaching Australia’s Motor Vehicle Service and Repair Information Sharing Scheme, or MVIS.