A new proposed privacy bill, The Banning Surveillance Advertising Act, would restrict ad targeting to context and to generalized location data that goes no further than the city level.
When athletes arrive at the 2022 Winter Olympics they will be required to download an app called MY2022. Meant for contact tracing purposes, it will be packed with some unexpected extras: security flaws and possible censorship features.
DLA Piper finds that GDPR fines were up 7x in 2021. Data regulators are also receiving more data breach notifications, a trend that has steadily increased each year.
The new iCloud private relay feature is unpopular with mobile operators and some of the industry's biggest names are petitioning European regulators to see it as a threat to national digital sovereignty.
The Austrian data protection authority has found that the IP addresses and identifiers in Google Analytics cookie data were sufficiently personal to constitute a GDPR violation for purposes of transfer to the US.
Which? discovered various online banking security issues that could allow fraudsters to pull off successful scams, and noted banks could do more to protect customers from potential fraud.
Agencies published a list of tactics, techniques, and procedures used by Russian APTs and mitigations to protect critical infrastructure networks from state-sponsored attacks.
The REvil ransomware gang has been a point of special focus for international law enforcement and possibly been dealt a fatal blow as Russian authorities have rounded up 14 members residing in the country.
EA introduced new security measures to prevent account takeover attacks after hackers successfully breached high-profile players’ accounts via phishing and social engineering attacks.
The destructive malware that is currently being spread in Ukraine acts like ransomware in that it locks up target systems by encrypting key files, but there is no payment option.
