Trustwave analyzed dark web chatter on the underground hacking forums and discovered that cybercriminals were anxious after the Russian FSB arrested 14 REvil ransomware gang members.
Mayor's office of Lisbon has been handed a $1.4 million fine by the country's data protection commission for providing the personal data of activists and organizers to foreign diplomats, including Russia’s foreign ministry.
Hackers stole up to $30 million in the Crypto.com hack associated with 2FA bypass, forcing the exchange to refund the victims and migrate to a new 2FA infrastructure.
The tech giants are claiming that the antitrust bills would harm consumer security and privacy, by "breaking" services such as Gmail and search bars.
A new proposed privacy bill, The Banning Surveillance Advertising Act, would restrict ad targeting to context and to generalized location data that goes no further than the city level.
When athletes arrive at the 2022 Winter Olympics they will be required to download an app called MY2022. Meant for contact tracing purposes, it will be packed with some unexpected extras: security flaws and possible censorship features.
DLA Piper finds that GDPR fines were up 7x in 2021. Data regulators are also receiving more data breach notifications, a trend that has steadily increased each year.
The new iCloud private relay feature is unpopular with mobile operators and some of the industry's biggest names are petitioning European regulators to see it as a threat to national digital sovereignty.
The Austrian data protection authority has found that the IP addresses and identifiers in Google Analytics cookie data were sufficiently personal to constitute a GDPR violation for purposes of transfer to the US.
Which? discovered various online banking security issues that could allow fraudsters to pull off successful scams, and noted banks could do more to protect customers from potential fraud.
