Lessons from Emile Heskey’s battle with HMRC – Law Gazette – Features
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The rise of NDAs in divorce – Law Gazette – Features
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Ex-CA judge “should have disclosed work for Freshfields” – Legal Futures
A former Court of Appeal judge’s failure to disclose her links with top City firm Freshfields has led to a decision she helped make in an international arbitration being set…
High Court refuses time extension to serve claim on law firm – Legal Futures
The High Court has refused a time extension to claimants to serve a professional negligence claim on a law firm over the restructuring of a trust. The post High Court…
Conveyancers will be urged to move away from client account – Legal Futures
Licensed conveyancers will be encouraged by their regulator to move away from the risks of client account as it becomes more practical, an industry roundtable has heard. The post Conveyancers…
AI will have bigger impact on law than the internet, says thinktank – Legal Futures
Artificial intelligence will have a greater impact on legal services than the internet revolution, a roundtable sponsored by the Solicitors Regulation Authority has predicted. The post AI will have bigger…
DOJ and FTC Sue TikTok for Violating Children’s Privacy Laws – The Hacker News
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ), along with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), filed a lawsuit against popular video-sharing platform TikTok for “flagrantly violating” children’s privacy laws in the country.…
Hackers Exploit Misconfigured Jupyter Notebooks with Repurposed Minecraft DDoS Tool – The Hacker News
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack campaign targeting misconfigured Jupyter Notebooks. The activity, codenamed Panamorfi by cloud security firm Aqua, utilizes a Java-based tool…
Attackers leverage Cloudflare tunnels to obscure malware distribution – CSO Online
Cybercriminals regularly abuse free services to host malware or to set up command-and-control (C2) infrastructure because they know connections to such services won’t raise suspicion inside networks. Such is the…
Fortune 50 Co. Pays Record-Breaking $75M Ransomware Demand – Dark Reading
The runaway success of an upstart ransomware outfit called “Dark Angels” may well influence the cyberattack landscape for years to come. – Read More
China’s APT41 Targets Taiwan Research Institute for Cyber Espionage – Dark Reading
The state-sponsored Chinese threat actor gained access to three systems and stole at least some research data around computing and related technologies. – Read More
Twilio Users Kicked Out of Desktop App, Forced to Switch to Mobile – Dark Reading
Now that the Authy Desktop app has reached EOL and is no longer accessible, users are hoping their 2FA tokens synced correctly with their mobile devices. – Read More
APT41 Hackers Use ShadowPad, Cobalt Strike in Taiwanese Institute Cyber Attack – The Hacker News
A Taiwanese government-affiliated research institute that specializes in computing and associated technologies was breached by nation-state threat actors with ties to China, according to new findings from Cisco Talos. The…
Is the US Federal Government Increasing Cyber-Risk Through Monoculture? – Dark Reading
In a monoculture, cybercriminals need to look for a weakness in only one product, or discover an exploitable vulnerability, to affect a significant portion of services. – Read More
APT28 Targets Diplomats with HeadLace Malware via Car Sale Phishing Lure – The Hacker News
A Russia-linked threat actor has been linked to a new campaign that employed a car for sale as a phishing lure to deliver a modular Windows backdoor called HeadLace. “The…