American lawmakers may once again be ready to seriously take up the idea of a federal privacy law. A report about the bill was quickly followed by publication of a discussion draft for public view.
New vulnerability disclosure rules announced by the Chinese government have raised the prospect of "zero-day hoarding," as anything discovered in the country must now be reported to the CCP and to no one else (in most cases).
Facebook's sentiment analysis understands the emotions of vulnerable teens and and is giving that data to advertisers to help understand market segments.
IoT devices that record copious details of the daily lives of users raise natural privacy concerns. A history-clearing factory reset on the Echo Dot does not appear to clear that data.
Singapore has recently introduced a discussion paper on data portability to will not only improve options and outcomes for consumers, but will also improve transparency in data collection. Will the ease of proliferation of this personal data among more companies lead to a simple statistical increased likelihood of data and identity theft?
Telegram, one of the leading privacy-first messaging apps, has become home to a cybercrime ecosystem comparable to dark web forums. It allows for building very large private groups and the use of bots.
The Trump administration had proposed banning TikTok as a national security threat. Cybersecurity researchers from the University of Toronto have come to a different conclusion, though with caveats.
New report indicates that Twitter may have great value as a vulnerability management tool. Twitter mentions are twice as good as CVSS when it comes to measuring an organization's potential exploitability.
The Information Society Forum (ISF) believes that human-centered security is the way forward. Security awareness thus must stay in tune with expected patterns of behavior and psychological realities.
Facebook-owned WhatsApp is suing Israeli surveillance technology firm NSO Group. It alleged that NSO group exploited a WhatsApp hack to spy on more than 1,400 people in 20 countries.
