Faced with unrelenting policy, Apple has reportedly turned over servers containing iCloud data to the charge of the Chinese government.
As of February 21, Apple device users in the UK began seeing a notice that the iCloud end-to-end encryption feature is no longer available in their region. That stems from a secret order recently issued by the Home Office, only made known to the public due to inside sources leaking it to the media, requiring Apple to start implementing backdoor access to encrypted cloud data and to begin complying immediately.
The U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined outsourcing firm Capita £14 million ($18.8M) for its alleged failure to prevent a data breach that compromised the personal information of millions of people.
UK's ICO is increasingly active in their efforts to reduce offences in anti-spam regulations and data breaches. In 2017, we witnessed an annual rise in fines of nearly 69 percent, from £2.9 to £4.9 million. A total of 104 companies has been fined a total of £8.7 million for failures since August 2015.
The 2021 OT/ICS Cybersecurity Report confirms that threats to industrial operations are rising both in number and severity and while monitoring is up, but 48% say that they cannot be sure that they have not been breached.
The 2022 ICS Cybersecurity Report sees the majority of organizations recognizing ICS threats as being very serious; 22% ranked them as "critical" and 41% ranked them as "high" priority, representing a slow but steady increase over the past several years.
ICS vulnerabilities affecting critical infrastructure increased by 41% within 6 months, with most rated high/critical, having low attack complexity, and remotely exploitable.
Online trust and identity management giant Entrust suffered a security breach by a notorious ransomware gang that exfiltrated files from the company’s internal network.
The FTC reported that identity theft doubled during the pandemic as scammers targeted COVID-19 relief payments to individuals and government-sponsored loans for small businesses.
About 50% of those who had information stolen say they were victimized more than once. And the number of people that lost at least $10,000 to personal data theft jumped from 9% of respondents to 30% in 2021.
