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.
Acer suffered another cyber attack in Taiwan by the Desorden group that hacked the company in India. Hackers warned of Acer's poor cybersecurity practices and vulnerable Asian servers.
The ACLU's argument points out that it is impossible to be acting in good faith if one is aware that innocent and unrelated people will be swept up in a broad dragnet by a geofence warrant issued for Google location data.
Facial recognition firm Clearview AI is facing a new lawsuit for violating Illinois state privacy laws for trawling public sources to vacuum up pictures of millions of people without consent.
Update to the ACLU's privacy policy indicates that the organization is now feeding the same Facebook targeted advertising system it criticizes. Data sharing includes names, email addresses, and phone numbers.
The advertising industry would like to see Australia’s privacy law kept loose enough to allow "legitimate" data collection, a "tech neutral" posture and rules that are no stronger than the ones at play in the EU and UK.
Study examined 640 of the most popular shopping apps currently available via the Google Play Store. About two-thirds of these make use of ad libraries, and on average these apps connect with 1.8 ad networks that can share phone permissions.
The US proposal for a new EU-US data transfer framework that meets GDPR standards was drawn up in early 2022. The EDPB will now scrutinize the arrangement before passing it on to the EU member states and the European Parliament for final decisions.
German sportswear giant Adidas has confirmed that a third-party breach compromised customer data amid ongoing cybersecurity incidents rocking the company in other countries.
While the digital advertising industry revenue grew a record 35.4% in 2021 and is on pace for another banner year in 2022, it’s also under intense regulatory and consumer scrutiny and increased demands for improved data privacy standards.
