The use of smart doorbells may be facing new restrictions in the UK, due to a recent court ruling that found an Amazon Ring doorbell pointed at a neighbor's property constituted an invasion of privacy.
Proposed fruits of the Irish DPC's three-year investigation into Facebook's consent and transparency violations are GDPR fines that would amount to a maximum of about $36 million to $42 million, or what the company makes roughly every two hours.
Cloud security firm Ermetic found that vulnerable identities and misconfigured environments on most AWS accounts expose 90% of S3 buckets to potential ransomware attacks.
Social media and the internet advertising industry now almost entirely run on algorithmic decision-making models. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are advocating for a "right to explanation" to shed light on them.
An in-depth study from the University of Oxford has examined 24,000 Apple App Store and Google Play apps, and found that Apple's "walled garden" approach has not necessarily made a difference in terms of app privacy.
Palo Alto Networks’ researchers discovered that 96% of cloud containers on public registries were prone to vulnerabilities and misconfigurations that could result in a supply chain attack.
Fraudsters stole cryptocurrency from 6,000 users in a Coinbase hack attributed to a multi-factor authentication flaw that allowed them to exploit the account recovery process.
Google's Threat Analysis Group has announced it is providing free USB security keys to a collection of politicians, activists and other high-risk individuals likely to be targeted by nation-state hackers.
Report from Momentum Cyber finds that the first half of 2021 was the busiest on record for the cybersecurity market in terms of investment and strategic activity. The torrid pace has been indirectly driven by the massive spike in ransomware attacks.
Tighter cybersecurity regulations that have already come for certain critical infrastructure industries are now being applied to rail and aviation, as the Biden administration continues a general program of hardening the country's cyber defenses.
