Russian hackers have reportedly accessed surveillance cameras in apartment buildings and parking facilities, and are most interested in those that are near critical infrastructure or air defense systems and can have their viewing angles changed remotely.
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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 Google privacy lawsuit was first filed in 2020, and had been scheduled to go before the District Court on February 5. It is now on pause as the lawyers prepare a binding term sheet. Claimants are seeking a total of at least $5 billion.
BlackCat has since taken back at least partial control of its Tor site after a major law enforcement action. A "this website has been unseized" graphic has appeared along with a rant in Russian promising revenge.
The FTC’s new COPPA amendments would bolster children's privacy by further restricting how companies can collect, use and monetize the data of underage users, shifting a greater deal of responsibility for privacy online to service providers.
A ChatGPT vulnerability documented in a new report causes training data, some containing personal information, to randomly appear when one tells the chatbot to repeat a particular word.
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Patient care facilities that are certified for Medicare and Medicaid may be directly required to make improvements under the new healthcare cybersecurity rules. The new cybersecurity strategy also proposes a variety of assistance to other facilities.
noyb notes that the ultimate outcome of this GDPR complaint could set a precedent that makes online privacy very expensive. If Meta's ad-free model is ultimately legitimized, it is likely that all other apps supported by targeted advertising will adopt the same scheme.
Internal sources and documents seen by Guardian reporters indicate that advanced persistent threat (APT) hacker groups working for Russia and China have likely had sleeper malware spread throughout the UK nuclear site's IT systems since at least 2015.
A group calling itself "Cyber Av3ngers," believed to be supported by Iran's government, has declared war against Western organizations making use of Israeli technology. One of the opening salvos in this campaign appears to be against US water utilities, with at least one confirmed strike by the Iranian hackers in Pennsylvania.










