ITRC report noted that the 3,205 data breaches recorded last year shatters the prior record of 1,860 and is a 78% increase from a similar number (1,806) seen in 2022.
Internal emails reveal that leading furniture retailer IKEA is battling an ongoing campaign of phishing attacks, fueled by internal and vendor accounts that have already been compromised.
Biometric privacy lawsuit names Amazon, Google parent company Alphabet and Microsoft as violators of BIPA for their use of IBM's facial recognition database to train their own facial recognition systems.
Impact of cyber attacks on RavnAir has forced at least a dozen flights out of the air on a busy travel weekend in December and it seems that there may be more delayed and canceled flights into February.
Apple argued that Corellium's use of its software constituted a copyright violation; a federal judge has disagreed, throwing the case out on the basis of the company's software being a tool for security researchers.
An open source project maintainer decided to protest the war in Ukraine by targeting computers with an IP address in Russia or Belarus with a malicious update in a controversial act of hacktivism.
The March 2020 SolarWinds hack, which was not discovered for months, has formally been blamed on Russian hackers by a coalition of US intelligence agencies.
The new Apple IDFA terms will soon require apps that use ad tracking to obtain consent via a pop-up. Facebook is pre-empting it with their own pop-up that tries to convince the user to opt in.
Singapore government is providing a free contact tracing wearable that logs close contacts offline and will only make the data available if tested positive for COVID-19.
The list of the biggest data breaches of the past five years is populated with representatives from the travel industry. Now a Which? study found that it is still rife with security holes.
