Okta is once again in trouble as the company's GitHub repositories have been hacked. There does not appear to be any impact to Okta clients, but the service source code appears to have been stolen in the 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.
The privacy agreement consists of a list of "shared principles" drawn from "commonalities" in existing national laws, even though some OECD signatories have limited or no data privacy laws at the national or federal level.
A new report from Tenable explores the concerns implicit in the emerging virtual reality market, which is expected by some analysts to be worth as much as $800 billion by 2024, and highlights what are likely to be the biggest metaverse security threats.
The rapporteur for France's lead data protection agency (CNIL) is recommending a six million euro fine for Apple’s breach of the EU’s ePrivacy directive due to privacy violations. Apple had granted exceptions to the ATT framework for a variety of its own pre-installed apps.
The US proposal for a new EU-US data transfer framework that meets GDPR standards was drawn up in early 2022. The EDPB will now scrutinize the arrangement before passing it on to the EU member states and the European Parliament for final decisions.
Legislation that would institute a TikTok ban on government devices has cleared the first major hurdle in Congress, passing the Senate with unanimous consent. The "No TikTok on Government Devices Act" was authored by Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) but had strong bipartisan support.
XIoT devices are laden with security risks. 68% have a known vulnerability with a CVSS score of at least 8 and 18% are carrying a vulnerability of at least 9. And the average organization has three to five XIoT devices per employee.
Some users have found that asking ChatGPT to exploit smart contracts actually returns viable vulnerabilities. Experiments are beginning to reveal that AI chatbots may shake up the cybersecurity world.
The Uber data breach resulted in the theft of a variety of internal company information, and stemmed from a third-party vendor. The thieves also got away with source code and employee personal information.
Study examined 640 of the most popular shopping apps currently available via the Google Play Store. About two-thirds of these make use of ad libraries, and on average these apps connect with 1.8 ad networks that can share phone permissions.
