Hackers used data from 2015 Ashley Madison data breach to conduct cyber extortion scams, asking users to pay more than $1,000 worth of Bitcoin. Read More
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Byron Mühlberg is a journalist with particular interest in writing on matters relating to technology, business, and economics.
By searching the internet, hackers have begun hijacking smart building access control systems to recruit these IoT devices into botnets for launching DDoS attacks. Read More
DPC has opened a privacy investigation against Google over location tracking and its capacity to collect massive location data that could be in breach of GDPR regulations. Read More
Researchers used PolicyLint app to parse through privacy policies of 11,430 Android apps and found self-contradictory language in user data collection practices on 1,618 of them. Read More
Cisco Data Privacy Benchmark Study 2020 shows businesses are seeing big financial benefits from data privacy practices at an average return of 2.7 times on their privacy spend. Read More
UN suffered a major data breach from unpatched SharePoint vulnerability that compromised staff information, commercial contract data, and health insurance data on 42 servers in 3 branches. Read More
Flaws in Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention feature allow hackers to track users as they navigate the Internet and gain access to their cross-site browsing history. Read More
Mounting controversy over law enforcement agencies’ use of new facial recognition tool developed by Clearview AI, which allegedly scraped more than 3 billion photographs of people from Internet. Read More
European Commission is deliberating whether to adopt a three to five-year facial recognition ban that will give them some time to figure out how best to regulate the new technology. Read More
A new study reveals that the more humanlike a virtual assistant appears to be, the more consumer trust is placed in the device, which raises fresh concerns around Big Tech and data protection. Read More
