Agencies of nearly two dozen small cities and towns in Texas were hit with a ransomware attack that crippled key city services like payment processing operations and printing of identity documents.
TikTok is no longer welcome on the devices of federal agencies, along with many state governments. But some in Congress are calling for an even broader TikTok ban, to the point of removing it from the country entirely.
Ukraine argues that Russian cyber attacks that target civilians via infrastructure impacts are coordinated with kinetic military attacks, and should be classified as war crimes.
A "Ransomware Task Force" initiative led by the U.S. Department of Justice is including a broad coalition of big tech firms, as well as Europol and the UK National Crime Agency, in an effort to put an end to ransomware payments.
A major data breach at health insurance giant Blue Shield of California appears to be a case of misconfiguring advertising analytics tools. Between April 2021 and January 2024, Google Analytics was misconfigured causing some personal information and potentially sensitive health data related to claims and searches to be available to Google’s ad network.
Recent cloud security survey shows that even though businesses have increased their awareness on security threats, 19% still experienced a data breach, with account hijacking being the top attack method.
noyb's GDPR complaint asserts Meta’s privacy fee makes it impossible for existing service users to withdraw consent without paying. That in turn flies in the face of a GDPR stipulation (found in Article 7).
A dark web marketplace calling itself "BidenCash" is attempting to establish itself by giving away 1.2 million stolen credit cards, but security researchers believe most are already invalid.
With 2020 election drawing near, U.S. Cybercom, is developing information warfare tactics ranging from subtle warnings to more direct attacks on Russia’s information warfare capabilities.
A case of what TikTok says was the mistaken storage of EU data on a server in China appears to be concluding with a €530 million fine for the video giant, under charges of violating Article 46(1) of the GDPR and its requirement to "verify, guarantee and demonstrate" that its data transfers were kept adequately secure.
