TikTok has already faced several actions involving the privacy and security of children, who have always been one of the biggest demographic groups on the platform. A new FTC investigation has raised the issue again.
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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 DOJ argues that consumers are being shortchanged on privacy and security as a result of a monopoly, even though these are two of Apple's primary marketing points. One specific criticism is that the company has intentionally stifled cross-platform messaging.
Aside from having prefabricated phishing attack pages set up for them, subscribers to the MFA bypass service get the benefit of interception of the user's 2FA token as they complete their login.
A known state-sponsored hacking group from China has been sanctioned by the US Treasury Department for a campaign of cyber attacks over the past decade, and has been named by the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) as the culprit in a 2021 cyber espionage campaign against parliamentarians.
The Loop DoS attack essentially generates an endless chain of error messages that will eventually exhaust all available resources and take vulnerable systems offline, with no way for the attacker to stop it once it is initiated.
Trend Micro finds the Chinese APT group has compromised at least 70 government organizations over the last two years, in 23 different countries. But the group's logs indicate it has targeted over 110 organizations in 10 additional nations.
The White House’s 2025 fiscal plan includes a request for $13 billion to the federal cybersecurity budget, a substantial increase from the current $11.8 billion number that is still being negotiated.
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A data breach at France's national unemployment agency may have exposed 20 years worth of records, a possible total of 43 million between that and a related breach of an employment service for people with disabilities.
A new report from cybersecurity firm HiddenLayer finds that Google Gemini is vulnerable to prompt injection attacks. The researchers characterize it as being open to "profound misuse."
