Research found that email was the riskiest channel for accidental data loss, accounting for 65% of data losses, ahead of cloud sharing and instant messaging platforms.
NSA director of cybersecurity says ransom payments are more difficult to process due to lack of access to assorted banking options, and inability to purchase necessary technology to set up the infrastructure for new ransomware campaigns.
The FBI says hackers who scraped credit card data by injecting malicious PHP code on an online checkout page were targeting U.S. businesses since September 2020.
Bad bot traffic makes up half of all internet activity, and is nearly double that of "good bots" that perform legitimate functions such as indexing and automated responses.
Swiss banking secrecy laws began to see significant erosion in 2018, and are facing another substantial blow as the country's government is proposing to allow its spy agency to monitor financial transactions.
Study finds RTB adtech systems share online behavior data 294 billion times per day in the U.S. and 197 billion times per day in Europe. Average internet user in the US is exposed 747 times each day; in Europe it is 376 times per day.
While the CFAA and all of its troubled language remains in place, the DOJ has announced that security researchers who do not have malicious intent do not have anything to fear anymore.
Privacy advocates were upset with the bank data decision, but were also handed a win by the Supreme Court with its ruling that the national government could not go ahead with a plan to collect the biometric data of cell phone users.
Hackers injected trojan code into the Roblox scripts by compromising the Synapse X engine, allowing them to install DLL libraries capable of breaking applications and destroying data.
Mee6 is a very popular Discord bot that automates a wide variety of functions. A compromise led to an assortment of associated NFT services seeing spam and hacking attempts.