New proposed Washington Privacy Act will have provisions on facial recognition technology that require explicit opt-in consent for companies to collect and use biometric data. Read More
New report shows a massive spike in human farms used to launch online fraud attacks after analyzing more than 1.3 billion individual transactions between October and December 2019. Read More
For decades, U.S.-controlled Crypto AG helped the CIA spy on governments around the world by inserting encryption backdoor in cryptographic equipment. Read More
Malwarebytes has debunked the common belief that Macs are safer, reporting that malware threats targeting Mac computers had almost doubled that of Windows machines in 2019. Read More
A new bill on consumer privacy proposed in Maryland gives residents the right to opt out of certain types of personal data transfers to third parties. Read More
Proposed privacy bill will establish a new federal Data Protection Agency responsible for creating national privacy rules and have broad enforcement powers by way of fines and civil penalties. Read More
For nine months leading up to Facebook's biggest data breach of 29 million user accounts, Facebook had been repeatedly warned about a security flaw which later ended up being exploited by hackers. Read More
Israeli voter data was exposed by the country’s election management site that leaked admin credentials via an unprotected API endpoint in the homepage source code. Read More
A proposed update from the state Attorney General is set to change the new CCPA up a bit just two months in, granting some small concessions in the privacy rules for both businesses and end users. Read More
Hackers used data from 2015 Ashley Madison data breach to conduct cyber extortion scams, asking users to pay more than $1,000 worth of Bitcoin. Read More
