An insider data breach at FinWise Bank has impacted 689,000 America First Financial customers after a former employee accessed their sensitive personal information.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland was slapped with a hefty ICO fine for a preventable data leak that exposed the personal information of its officers and staff.
The Trump Cyber Strategy is broken into six policy pillars meant to guide development of more specific measures and their future implementation. Each of these outlines consists of only one to two paragraphs without a large amount of specifics, making it a shorter and somewhat vaguer document than similar cyber policies laid out by prior administrations.
The Loop DoS attack essentially generates an endless chain of error messages that will eventually exhaust all available resources and take vulnerable systems offline, with no way for the attacker to stop it once it is initiated.
"Meow" cyber attack seeks out unsecured databases and simply wipes them out without seeking either fame or material gain, as a form of activism or perhaps just for fun.
40% of Dark Net vendors are selling targeted hacking services designed for Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 companies, from stolen credentials to custom malware to infiltrate bank ATMs.
Two of the biggest components of the new AI rules are the implementation of mandatory AI safeguards by federal agencies, such as those used in healthcare and financial benefit systems, and expanded transparency requirements.
Apple's privacy policy changes have already cost other big tech firms nearly $10 billion in lost ad revenue. Research firm Lotame reports that Snap, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have lost a combined $9.85 billion thus far in the third and fourth quarters.
Information displayed is very similar to what is seen on Apple's privacy labels, but it remains to be seen if Google Play effectively enforces the inclusion of accurate information about Android apps.
As with many of these recent attempts at a comprehensive federal privacy law, the bill has bipartisan support. But its fate is just as uncertain as any of its predecessors during a Congressional period in which data privacy has been kept in the backseat.
