privacy lawsuit claims to have tested what Apple apps "phone home" with and found that it seemingly makes no difference what the user chooses in terms of analytics data permissions.
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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.
Security researchers had matched email addresses to account names, providing an indication that the data leak was legitimate, but Twitter says that the data was gathered via a variety of publicly available sources.
Cryptocurrency has become an increasingly popular payment method for gamers over the last few years. The virtual currency offers numerous advantages that make it ideal for gaming transactions.
Surveyed organizations reporting a 61% drop in ransomware attacks but the average cost of ransomware attacks remains high, even as study shows increasing complacency among organizations in keeping vital safety measures in place.
A new study from Chainalysis finds that crypto crimes are proving more lucrative than ever for organized criminal gangs, but that illicit activity overall only saw a slight raise from its record low levels in 2021.
The main theme of the Biden op-ed was the setting aside of partisan differences to curb the power of big tech, primarily by limiting the ways in which these firms collect and use personal data.
The sudden announcement of an FAA system outage that grounded all flights nationwide immediately raised natural concerns about a cyber attack, but the agency is saying that the incident was a "glitch" caused by a damaged database file.
Ukraine argues that Russian cyber attacks that target civilians via infrastructure impacts are coordinated with kinetic military attacks, and should be classified as war crimes.
Dark web forum posts indicate that low- or even no-skill threat actors have figured out how to manipulate ChatGPT instructions to get it to produce basic but viable malware.
CNIL has hit Apple's App Store with a fine of €8 million over its ad personalization practices, taking it to task for not properly collecting consent and making the process of opting out too indirect.
