There is still an elevated threat of serious Iranian cyber attacks on US targets even as the potential for an all-out war seems to have simmered down for the moment as Iran is known to act through asymmetric warfare. Read More
Democrats pushed through a new bill to reinstate the Net Neutrality rules to prevent large broadband Internet providers from blocking or slowing Internet access, or prioritizing their own content over the content of smaller rivals. Read More
Seventy percent of security pros want governments to impose social media regulation for the collection of personal data by social media companies. Yet, expectations are hazy and 72% also indicated that they have little to no faith that government officials have an understanding of the threats to digital privacy. Read More
New EKANS ransomware is the first for-profit strain of ransomware designed to shut down specific processes used in industrial control systems made by GE and other major manufacturers. Read More
Thanks to some unsecured public-facing databases, Verifications.io email data breach has set a new record for leaking 2 billion personal records which can be useful for identity theft and scams. Read More
Supply chain security is a hot issue for enterprises with increasing third party data breaches. Recent (ISC)² study indicates these breaches are more likely the fault of a large enterprise partner than a small one. Read More
15 million Canadians’ sensitive personal information was exposed in LifeLabs data breach and the company is now facing a civil lawsuit seeking $1.14 billion dollars in damages. Read More
Recent Instagram data scraping by HYP3R has raised many privacy concerns as the trusted Facebook marketing partner was found scraping and re-packaging social media data for advertisers. Read More
New GDPR complaint filed against Amazon alleged that the company’s email security failed to encrypt emails sent between the platform's third-party sellers and their customers. Read More
Marriott has put half a billion guest at risk in one of the largest data breach to date. The scope of the data breach is not only startling due to the numbers of guests that have been affected, it is the sheer amount of time since 2014 that the hackers had had access to the data. Read More
