FTC study indicates that many U.S. ISPs are collecting intimate personal data about their customers, and that customers are largely unaware of the scope and uninformed about their options for limiting this data collection.
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Scott Ikeda is a technology futurist and writer for more than 15 years. He travels extensively throughout Asia and writes about the impact of technology on the communities he visits. Over the last 5 years, Scott has grown increasingly focused on the future landscape of big data, surveillance, cybersecurity and the right to privacy.
As third-quarter reports roll out, the full effect of the Apple privacy changes to iOS are beginning to be measurable. The early report is that the ad revenue impact is very different for different companies.
Microsoft reported that the Russian hackers behind the devastating SolarWinds attack are employing similar tactics to worm their way into tech supply chains, looking to establish long-term footholds for espionage purposes.
Google has been issuing direct personal warnings to users that appear to have been targeted by a state-sponsored hacking group. The company has taken the unusual step of issuing a general public warning about an Iran-backed threat.
US government employees will soon be required to use a stronger measure of multi-factor authentication to access their work accounts. Aimed at putting an end to phishing, the measure is phasing out less secure forms of authentication.
Australian companies that have connections to the country's critical infrastructure might have no choice but to allow the government to step in during cyber attacks, if new legislation proposed by the Morrison government is approved.
Collaborative international law enforcement effort appears to have at least temporarily crippled the notorious REvil ransomware gang, taking the group's Tor sites and dark web infrastructure off the internet and putting it beyond reach.
Privacy lawsuit that is attempting to hold Facebook liable for the Cambridge Analytica breach has attached CEO Mark Zuckerberg as a defendant, claiming that he played a key role in decisions.
Argentina suffered one of the most catastrophic data breaches possible last week, as access to a government database containing national ID card information for every citizen was found for sale on the dark web.
Ransomware is the current king of the cybersecurity threat landscape, in part because of willingness to escalate to real-world damage to infrastructure. The DHS Secretary thinks that things are poised to go a step further in that direction in the very near future.
