A member of a hacker forum claims that they have stolen Razer's "keys to the kingdom" in the form of source code, encryption keys and employee credentials, and is looking for a $100,000 Monero payout. Razer has yet to confirm the data breach.
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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.
EU data protection authorities are increasingly taking the position that the internal data that Google itself receives from the Google Analytics tool is in violation of GDPR terms. Sweden's data protection authority is indicating that it might be the next one in line to ban it.
Privacy concerns may be getting lost in the stampede to find a 'better Twitter,' as researchers warn that Meta's new app collects much more sensitive personal information than comparable platforms.
Deloitte foresees a collection of privacy enhancing technologies battling to become a new ad tech standard that ensures compliance with evolving global data protection regulations while reducing a seemingly inevitable blow to revenues as much as possible.
In addition to the DDoS campaign and claimed theft of Microsoft accounts, Anonymous Sudan has busied itself with a campaign of attacks against European banks as of late. Microsoft says there is no evidence of a data breach.
The wording of Google’s latest privacy policy update essentially declares that the entire internet is its domain to scrape for training its AI models and creation of its AI products, a position that is all but assured to generate legal challenges.
An Android tracking app sometimes used by parents and employers (along with more unsavory purposes) has been hacked. Data breach affects at least 13,000 devices, along with contact information for about 26,000 customers and location data points for about 13,400 people.
Taiwan hardware supplier’s data breach has been traced back to systems integrator Kinmax Technology, which lists a broad variety of tech industry titans as clients: Cisco, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, and Microsoft among them.
The USPTO says that an API vulnerability was present between February 2020 and March 2023, causing a data leak of about 61,000 private residential addresses attached to patent filings.
Cyber attack on parent company Suncor Energy has disrupted the Petro-Canada's payment and loyalty reward systems. Petro-Canada has about 1,500 gas stations and is the second-largest chain of gas stations in the country.
