The IDFA was created as something of a compromise to make ad tracking possible while protecting user privacy, but designer Erik Neuenschwander eventually came to openly regret having ever created the system.
The EU and US have reached an agreement in principle on a Privacy Shield replacement, but details of the data transfer deal are not yet available to the public.
Attackers exploit Google reCAPTCHA forms to sneak into users' inboxes because automated email security scanners cannot solve CAPTCHAs to determine the destination phishing URLs.
Google says initial access broker Exotic Lily targeted at least 650 organizations with about 5,000 phishing emails per day to obtain credentials for selling to ransomware gangs.
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.
Pandora cybercrime gang took responsibility for the ransomware attack on automotive supplier Denso and threatened to leak 1.4 terabytes of stolen data. Attack occurred hot on the heels of another compromise on Bridgestone.
Okta has about 15,000 clients and provides authentication services for remote logins, usually for employees and students. A known security breach took place in January, but LAPSUS$ says this is something else.
The White House said that there is "no certainty" that there will be a cyber attack from Russia, but that the country is exploring options to target US critical infrastructure and that companies should harden cyber defenses.
The sheer number of reports that cloud security teams deal with are becoming a serious problem, and "alert fatigue" is causing critical alerts to be missed at an alarming rate.
The secret "Jedi Blue" deal that is facing antitrust probes involves Facebook refraining from engaging in "header bidding," a practice that tends to take money out of Google's coffers.
