The suit was filed in California and noted that while customers in a number of countries were automatically exempted from having their data put toward training AI models, US users had their content and messaging (including private messages) included by default.
Google's privacy sandbox proposal now plans to phase out third party cookies from the Chrome browser by 2022, and has laid out what is at least a theoretical roadmap to preserving the targeted ad industry without the major incursions into user privacy that are so common today.
The Uber data breach resulted in the theft of a variety of internal company information, and stemmed from a third-party vendor. The thieves also got away with source code and employee personal information.
Bangladesh has initiated a lawsuit against Rizal Commercial Banking Corp for the 2016 cyber heist of US$81 million, supported by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
North Korean hackers are focusing heavily on Magecart attacks by planting malicious code in online shopping carts of individual stores and payment processors.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority says that Chinese hackers breached three computers in the New York subway via Ivanti’s Pulse Connect Secure VPN critical vulnerabilities.
Employers must familiarise themselves with India's new Digital Personal Data Protection Act, and assess its implications for employee data. With compliance likely to require significant administrative and technical overhauls within organizations, it is prudent to begin readiness evaluations early.
Max Schrems, chairperson of noyb, has directed his organization to file over 100 privacy complaints against major businesses engaging in data transfers with the US.
The threat of a coup from the Conti ransomware gang is almost certainly hollow, but it showcases the boldness with which these groups are operating even after international law enforcement operations took out previous line-crossers.
A zero-day windows vulnerability HiveNightmare leads to local privilege escalation, exposing system files, registry, and SAM database to non-admin users.










