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Data Privacy News

Cisco Data Transparency Report: Consumer Trust Increasingly Hinges on How Personal Data is Treated

October 17, 2022

Survey makes clear that privacy and data transparency continues to be a primary concern for consumer trust. 81% of the respondents said that the way a company treats personal data is a reflection of its attitude toward and level of respect for its customers.

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Cyber Security News

Meta Found More Than 400 Malicious Apps Designed To Steal Facebook Login Information on Official App Stores

October 17, 2022

Malicious apps appear to be flying below the radar of Google and Apple security by not taking an approach of installing malware or keyloggers; instead they simply ask for Facebook login information as a condition of starting up the app.

Cyber Security News

Study Shows Attackers Designing Email Phishing Attacks To Bypass Microsoft Email Defenses, and They Are Winning

October 14, 2022

Cybercriminals design and test email phishing attacks to bypass Microsoft email defenses with nearly a fifth (18.8%) of phishing messages reaching their targets.

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Cyber Security News

Intel Alder Lake Source Code Leak Caused by Third Party, Boot Guard at Risk of Compromise

October 13, 2022

The Intel Alder Lake data leak first appeared as a 2.8 GB zip (expanding to 5.86 GB) posted by an unknown party to 4Chan. Intel has since confirmed that it is a genuine source code leak.

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Cyber Security News

CISA Alert: APT Groups Had “Long-Term Access” to a Defense Organization, Exfiltrated Sensitive Data

October 13, 2022

The FBI, CISA, and NSA issued a joint cybersecurity advisory about multiple APT groups that comprised a defense organization and exfiltrated sensitive data over a significant period.

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Cyber Security News

US Airports Hit by Wave of DDoS Attacks, a Number of Websites Temporarily Offline or Struggling With Spotty Service

October 12, 2022

A loose group of Russian criminals and amateur hackers are behind a wave of DDoS attacks that has disrupted the normal function of the websites of numerous US airports.

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Cyber Security News

Russian Hackers Shut Down Dozens of State Government Websites in DDoS Attacks

October 12, 2022

Russian hackers Killnet, notorious for crippling DDoS attacks, claimed responsibility for cyber attacks that shut down multiple state government websites.

Data Privacy News

Google To Pay $85 Million To Settle Location Tracking Case in Arizona

October 11, 2022

Google settles lawsuit accusing it of violating Arizona state's Consumer Fraud Act by continuing to collect user information for location tracking even after they had opted out, racking up massive profits in the process.

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Data Protection News

Executive Order for EU-US Data Transfers Looks To Smooth Over GDPR Restrictions, but Privacy Advocates Are Unsatisfied

October 11, 2022

The crux of the privacy objections is that the executive order does not guarantee that indiscriminate collection will be stopped; it merely attempts to narrow the scope of intelligence activity in EU-US data transfers.

Cyber Security News

Former Uber Security Chief Convicted of Covering up Two Data Breaches

October 10, 2022

The cover-up the security chief orchestrated was outed in 2017 when Uber appointed a new CEO and an internal investigation into the prior year's data breach was initiated. He was convicted on charges of obstruction of justice and knowing concealment of a felony.

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Cisco Data Transparency Report: Consumer Trust Increasingly Hinges on How Personal Data is Treated

Study Shows Attackers Designing Email Phishing Attacks To Bypass Microsoft Email Defenses, and They Are Winning

Intel Alder Lake Source Code Leak Caused by Third Party, Boot Guard at Risk of Compromise

CISA Alert: APT Groups Had “Long-Term Access” to a Defense Organization, Exfiltrated Sensitive Data

US Airports Hit by Wave of DDoS Attacks, a Number of Websites Temporarily Offline or Struggling With Spotty Service

Russian Hackers Shut Down Dozens of State Government Websites in DDoS Attacks

Google To Pay $85 Million To Settle Location Tracking Case in Arizona

Former Uber Security Chief Convicted of Covering up Two Data Breaches

Security flaw in Microsoft’s Analytics Platform Titan Exposes 17 Trillion Records

Meta Muse AI Assistant’s Zero-Day Vulnerability Could Enable Attackers to Inject Malware

New Disclosure of “Meddling” OpenAI Agents Includes Attacks on UN and US Government Websites

ShinyHunters Hacks the FBI in a Security Breach Exposing Personal Information of 38,000 People