Sean Kelly

Jun 8, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Adam Hamilton |Lisa D. Blackmer-Raynolds |Yaqing Li |Sean Kelly

AbstractSpinal cord injury (SCI) results in a plethora of physiological dysfunctions across all body systems, including intestinal dysmotility and atrophy of the enteric nervous system (ENS). Typically, the ENS has capacity to recover from perturbation, so it is unclear why intestinal pathophysiologies persist after traumatic spinal injury.

May 29, 2024 | mondaq.com | Sean Kelly |Michiko Gartshore

Professional regulators can incur substantial costs through discipline processes. These costs are often associated with investigations, hearings as well as committee member expenses and are an unfortunate by-product of ensuring the colleges or associations uphold their mandates to protect the public by holding members accountable.

Mar 31, 2024 | cisoseries.com | Sean Kelly

On Saturday, AT&T said that data on roughly 73 million current and former customers was exposed on the dark web, including social security numbers and other personal information. The data appears to be from 2019 or earlier. Interestingly, AT&T disclosed the news on Easter holiday weekend, though data that surfaced on the dark web roughly two weeks ago. AT&T said a “robust investigation” is underway but so far they have no evidence of unauthorized access to their systems.

Mar 26, 2024 | cisoseries.com | Sean Kelly

On Monday, U.S. prosecutors unsealed an indictment against seven individuals alleged to be part of the Chinese state-backed hacking group, APT 31. The gang used the unusual tactic of sending malicious emails to family members of their actual targets, typically high-ranking U.S. government officials, politicians and campaign staff. Victims who clicked embedded links revealed a host of device and network info that the hackers then used to target networks belonging to their actual targets.

Mar 12, 2024 | cisoseries.com | Sean Kelly

Despite law enforcement’s takedown of LockBit’s infrastructure on February 19, the ransomware gang has claimed last month’s attack on South Africa’s government workers pension fund. Officials from South Africa’s Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) initially reported that “no data breach had occurred,” but have now confirmed that pension fund systems were compromised and that they are “extremely concerned” about the data leaked by LockBit on Monday.