2020 has demonstrated several times over that no target is beneath the world's cyber criminals; this time it's a coordinated phishing attack on the global vaccine supply chain.
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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.
The court will determine how the nearly 35-year-old CFAA is interpreted. The worst possible interpretation could put employees and contractors at the mercy of the terms of service of systems and software.
The world's biggest domain registrar, GoDaddy, has suffered another blow to its reputation for security after losing control of the addresses of several well-known cryptocurrency services.
The Information Society Forum (ISF) believes that human-centered security is the way forward. Security awareness thus must stay in tune with expected patterns of behavior and psychological realities.
A wildlife park in Hangzhou has landed in some legal trouble after implementing a facial recognition system. A court agreed the sudden switch to this system constitutes privacy infringement.
South Korea has fined Facebook $6.1 million for privacy violations. Facebook shared the personal information of 3.3 million residents without collecting proper user consent.
New report from Allianz finds that cyber crime causes the most expensive insurance losses, but that internal failures are the most frequent overall reasons for cyber claims.
A German court has slashed a GDPR fine assessed to one of the country's largest telecommunications service providers by over 90%, calling it "unreasonably high."
Privacy groups are raising alarms about some EU aid programs. Funds, equipment and training are reportedly going to repressive governments and being used explicitly for domestic surveillance.
Among the major highlights of the Verizon Cyber Espionage Report: criminal organizations and former employees play a trivial role in overall attempts, the overwhelming majority come from states.
