Data breach on the US federal courts record systems involved "three foreign hostile actors" and the attack was "startling in breadth and scope" and may have had a "staggering" impact on the Department of Justice.
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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.
Regardless of the motivation of the Delhi police, the handover of donor payment data has put India's lack of a national data privacy law and its speech laws in the spotlight.
A new ordinance currently under consideration would give the SFPD real-time access to the video feeds of private businesses and residential cameras, access that could be granted without a warrant.
A probe has discovered that surveillance footage from Amazon's Ring devices is being provided to law enforcement agencies without warrants or the consent (or knowledge) of device owners.
Popular cloud-based word processor app WPS, one of the most widely used of its type in China, may be facilitating state censorship of user’s private documents. User complained million-word document was locked due to "sensitive content."
Since June, some ransomware gangs have begun incorporating search functions into their data leak sites, making stolen data more accessible to put added pressure on victims.
MiCODUS MV720 vehicle GPS tracker has sold some 1.5 million units across 169 countries and used in military vehicles, government cars, etc. Of the six serious vulnerabilities, one is a hard-coded password that allows anyone to send commands to the GPS units.
Ride hailing giant Didi's exile into the wilderness appears to be ending, and the Chinese government's harsh wave of regulatory crackdowns has taken sharper focus, as the investigation has concluded and a fine of $1.2 billion has been announced.
Fake crypto apps have grown to be a significant problem in the United States, with the FBI reporting a flurry of activity since October 2021. The agency has logged at least 244 victims during this period.
The Cyber Safety Review Board finds that the open source community is "under-equipped" to fully deal with the Log4j vulnerability and that it will be making appearances in the wild for "a decade or more."
