NATO is investigating an alleged data theft by a hacktivist group SiegedSec. 845 MB of compressed data was leaked and found to contain unclassified information and 8,000 employee records from 31 nations.
Xiaomi is accused of illicit data collection through their phones and apps that record and forward users’ usage tracking and web browser history to servers hosted by Alibaba.
Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America (Allianz Life) is notifying 1.4 million customers, financial professionals, and employees of a data breach that leaked their personal information via a third-party CRM platform.
Numbers drawn from Allianz internal customer data show a 17% increase in the value of cyber claims and a 14% increase in frequency during this period. The central driver is class action lawsuits connected to data and privacy breaches.
Insurance giant Allianz SE's annual survey on business risk finds that organizations are most concerned about cyber events going into 2024, once again placing it as their top risk category above business interruption and natural catastrophes.
Researchers discovered that almost all cyber attacks on cloud servers are aimed at installing cryptocurrency mining malware.
Almost All Major Sites Lack Website Security Measures Against Client-side JavaScript Vulnerabilities
Report shows website security failing as 99% of Alexa top 1,000 websites may be vulnerable to client-side JavaScript exploits such as Magecart, form jacking, cross-site scripting (XSS), and credit card skimming.
Nearly 100% of companies suffered at least one data breach in past 18 months. Most cited inadequate identity management and the lack of visibility as the major cloud security threat.
Meta has issued statements indicating that a stoppage of EU-US data transfers would be "devastating" and could cause it to pull services from the region, even specifically naming Facebook and Instagram as products that could become inaccessible.
Amazon announced its facial recognition suite Rekognition is able to read fear as an added emotion. This capability has raised new privacy concerns if implemented by law enforcement agencies.
