A 2018 Facebook privacy breach incident that first drew complaints just after the GDPR went into force has finally resulted in the issuance of a penalty. The €251 million GDPR fine stems from a flaw in the platform's "View All" feature.
State-Sponsored Hackers Have Been Pushing Spyware Through Authorized Google Play Downloads for Years
Campaign run by a group of state-sponsored hackers appears to have been passing data-siphoning spyware through approved apps in Google Play Store for years.
Numerous recent sources have been indicating a resurgence for ransomware in 2023, and perhaps the best evidence yet comes from a new Chainalysis report: for the first time ever, global ransomware payments topped over $1 billion in cryptocurrency.
Privacy coins such as Monero will soon be unavailable in South Korea, with the government citing crypto AML measures as the reason for the ban.
Massive personal data leak of 1.2 billion people was exposed on the Dark Web which includes email addresses, LinkedIn URLs, Facebook URLs and IDs, and phone numbers.
Whether it is company culture or an individual attitude, developers do appear to be commonly shipping vulnerable code with the full knowledge that there are weaknesses in it.
Huawei claims that not only will they benchmark its Hongmeng OS against Apple iOS when it comes to data privacy and security, it will also be 60% faster than Android and MacOS.
A significant data breach at Legal Aid Agency exposed over 2 million records, including criminal records and financial information of people who applied for legal assistance since 2010.
23andMe's defense as regards data privacy laws is essentially to claim that a data breach did not actually occur, given that the incident stemmed from the failure of certain users to change passwords that had been exposed elsewhere.
The annual Verizon DBIR provides further confirmation that attackers are showing a renewed interest in social engineering, particularly in conjunction with business email compromise (BEC) attacks. And the average financial damage of a ransomware attack has doubled and is almost certain to cost organizations at least $1 million to remediate.
