GRIMM researchers discovered three 15-year-old bugs allowing local privilege escalation, while ZDI found another Linux vulnerability could allow remote code execution without authentication.
The FBI and IC3’s recently released 2020 Internet Crime Report reveals that complaints of cyber crime nearly doubled from 2019, hitting an all-time record total of 791,790.
A change to California's state privacy law is the first regulation to directly take on dark patterns, threatening civil penalties brought under the state's existing unfair competition laws.
Acer reportedly suffered a REvil ransomware attack. The threat actors posted some files as proof and demanded the highest recorded ransom payment of $50 million in Monero.
Though circumventing Apple’s new privacy rules with fingerprinting techniques can get one banned from the app store, major Chinese tech companies appear to be discussing just that out in the open.
Interest-based advertising is a critical component of Google's revenue. The company has stepped up testing of its FLoC initiative, which it calls a "privacy first" approach to targeted advertising.
After an extended pause due to the coronavirus and the 2020 election, the prospect of a federal privacy law is once again being raised by Congress and the first contender is attempting to bridge the partisan divide.
McAfee researchers discovered a cyber espionage campaign involving Chinese Red Delta and Mustang Panda hackers trying to steal 5G technology secrets using a fake Huawei website.
Mimecast’s forensic investigation found that SolarWinds hackers accessed limited source code repositories and account details after compromising customers' Microsoft 365 tenants.
Slack debuted its long-awaited direct messaging feature but within just a few days it was gone, pulled due to a technical oversight that created major security concerns.
