Retail industry is one of the worst-prepared for cyber attacks, yet is also one of the most heavily targeted by online threats during the holiday shopping season.
Phishing scam perpetrated by attackers posing as vendors cheated the school district of approximately $2.3 million before the business compromise scheme was discovered about a month later.
Sites such as Paypal and Yahoo were blocked in Indonesia due to new internet regulations that require registering with the national government and granting it broad access to user data.
Reddit has been assessed £14.47 million in fines by the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) due to failures to adequately age-gate children under 13, which in turn led to impermissible collection and use of their personal data as well as potential exposure to mature content. The penalty is one of the largest it has issued thus far, and the largest for a children's privacy offense.
Twitter will pay a GDPR fine of €450,000 (about $546,000) in the first EU cross-border enforcement action brought against a tech giant.
Drawing on terms first proposed in a series of stalled-out data privacy bills that date back to at least 2018, the Government Surveillance Reform Act of 2023 (GSRA) narrows the focus specifically to warrantless government interception at all levels from federal to local.
Barracuda ESG zero-day attacks by Chinese state-sponsored threat actors compromised multiple U.S. state, local, and tribal government email servers. Over 200,000 private and government organizations worldwide depend on Barracuda email security gateway (ESG) appliances.
Prior to its seizure in April 2022, RaidForums was one of the biggest hacking forums catering to cybercriminals that trade in stolen data. A new competitor is looking to make a name for itself by exposing some 478,000 former RaidForums members.
Huawei hits back at the United States after it's PR charm offensive including opening up it's source code went nowhere. It reminded the world of the biggest scandal of the century – the PRISM program and Five Eyes surveillance.
Data breach of a popular online kids' game exposed personal details of 46 million users. The threat actor released 7 million records for free on a hacker forum.
