A third-party data breach affecting Oxford University’s CareerConnect job portal has exposed personal information belonging to students, alumni, researchers, and employers.
Apple's new ad tracking solution “Privacy Preserving Ad Click Attribution”, available on the Safari browser by end 2019, will protect user privacy while still giving advertisers enough information to judge effectiveness of an advertisement.
Microsoft has warned of an ongoing spear phishing campaign for intelligence gathering by the Russian state-linked threat actor Midnight Blizzard.
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.
This year's set of Gartner cybersecurity predictions touches on the expected growth of privacy laws and ransomware regulations, changes to corporate security structures, and even a warning of the first uses of operational technology to cause human casualties.
Irish DPC has handed down a €390 million fine to Meta over its targeted advertising practices on Facebook and Instagram. The fine stems from a long legal battle over Meta's claim that users enter into an implicit contract agreeing to receive personalized ads when they accept the terms of service.
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.
The infamous attack on Hugging Face has been traced back to a hidden message board that was created by OpenAI agents, one that about 1,200 found their way to and eventually used to plan and coordinate their actions.
Russian state-sponsored hackers take 19 mins to break into a network. All of this means that even SMEs need to have a cyber response capable of keeping up with these advanced threat actors.
According to a new survey conducted by the IAPP and EY, Global 500 companies will spend a combined $7.8 billion over the next year on GDPR compliance. Those escalating compliance costs will mostly result from new hiring, as corporations race to catch up with changes to privacy laws.
