The US Treasury is now warning of potential sanctions violations if ransomware payments are made, citing the possibility of civil penalties even if the attacker’s identity is unknown.
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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 government of Singapore is rolling out biometric facial verification technology as part of its national digital ID system, something that has privacy advocates concerned.
Apple App Store is facing an unusually large blitz of criticism, and Apple is fighting back by stressing the unique security and privacy benefits of its "walled garden" approach.
It appears that for some, including the biggest names in tech, the possibility of pulling out of Europe over the new Schrems data transfer requirements is not entirely off the table.
Study shows effects of phishing awareness training starts to wear off after four months and many employees will have lost what they learned almost entirely after six months.
An international law enforcement effort that involved multiple agencies from the United States and Europe has taken out a significant chunk of the dark web, putting 179 vendors out of business.
A six-year surveillance operation tied to state-sponsored Iranian hackers appears to have scooped up personal documents and tracked the phone location data of dissidents.
At present, only about 10% of the world has strong privacy regulations. Gartner believes that the GDPR will be the specific model upon which most new regulations are based.
The CCPA went live at the start of 2020, and study of data subject requests from the first half of its first year indicates that users are primarily using it to opt out of the sale of personal information.
Designed to create more stringent contractor screening and government use requirements, the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2019 has now cleared its first hurdle in the House of Representatives.
