US government employees will soon be required to use a stronger measure of multi-factor authentication to access their work accounts. Aimed at putting an end to phishing, the measure is phasing out less secure forms of authentication.
Australian companies that have connections to the country's critical infrastructure might have no choice but to allow the government to step in during cyber attacks, if new legislation proposed by the Morrison government is approved.
Collaborative international law enforcement effort appears to have at least temporarily crippled the notorious REvil ransomware gang, taking the group's Tor sites and dark web infrastructure off the internet and putting it beyond reach.
Privacy lawsuit that is attempting to hold Facebook liable for the Cambridge Analytica breach has attached CEO Mark Zuckerberg as a defendant, claiming that he played a key role in decisions.
Argentina suffered one of the most catastrophic data breaches possible last week, as access to a government database containing national ID card information for every citizen was found for sale on the dark web.
KnowBe4's State of Privacy and Security Report found that employee awareness of cybersecurity best practices is so appalling that most workers cannot identify common security risks.
Ransomware is the current king of the cybersecurity threat landscape, in part because of willingness to escalate to real-world damage to infrastructure. The DHS Secretary thinks that things are poised to go a step further in that direction in the very near future.
U.S. federal agencies issued a joint cybersecurity advisory over cyber threats targeting water facilities and wastewater treatment plants threatening water safety and availability.
Apple attributes iPhone security to its "walled garden" approach. Among other claims, Apple says that an Android device is up to 47 times more likely to contract malware and that allowing app sideloading would attract a wave of cyber crime to the iOS platform.
Annual Privacy Governance Report from IAPP and EY focuses on the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on privacy professions, along with the Schrems II decision and the resulting complications it has created for data transfers.
