Labor is the largest driver of financial crime compliance costs, together with other cost factors such as increasingly complex regulations, data privacy limitations and penalties for sanctions violations.
ZenLayer, a global network service provider, data leak has exposed over 380 million records of infrastructure and customer information via a misconfigured cloud database.
An SEC filing has revealed that GoDaddy suffered a data breach that impacts some 1.2 million of its current and former managed hosting customers. Wordpress users may have had their email addresses exposed.
Popular domain registrar and web hosting company GoDaddy was slapped with an FTC order mandating a robust information security program for allegedly failing to stop data breaches and misleading customers about its cybersecurity practices.
A data breach that exposed usernames and passwords of 28,000 GoDaddy web hosting accounts had raised security concerns over the authentication methods being used.
The new GoldPickaxe evolution of the GoldDigger trojan malware takes things a step further, retaining the prior functionality but adding the ability to capture facial data for the purpose of creating a deepfake to defeat biometric logins.
GoodRX admits no wrongdoing in the settlement, claiming that the health data it shared could not identify an individual user's health condition. The company was found to be sharing data with 20 marketing firms.
Privacy complaint by consumer groups take issue with the language used during Google's centralized account signup process, the number of clicks to enable privacy settings, and the alleged "nudges" used to encourage users to opt in to tracking.
The case began with a probe opened by an assortment of state attorneys general in 2018 in response to consumer complaints. The investigation found that Google had been misleading about its use of location tracking dating back to at least 2014.
Google's "Privacy Sandbox" project will proceed with the UK’s CMA taking a direct hand due to concerns that whatever Google develops will allow it to take an even greater share of the search advertising market.
