A Japanese government official disclosed a data leak that exposed Olympics ticket buyers' account credentials but the Olympics organizers denied being the source of the breach.
The coalition suggests that if privacy regulators sign off on Meta’s ad-free scheme, it will immediately be adopted by every other service that monetizes via personalized advertising. That could undo a great deal of the work GDPR decisions have done.
F5 has disclosed that an August breach exposed source code and customer data to what it calls "nation-state hackers." The company has not made an official attribution, but third-party security researcher sources are linking the attack to China's UNC5221.
Aside from having prefabricated phishing attack pages set up for them, subscribers to the MFA bypass service get the benefit of interception of the user's 2FA token as they complete their login.
UK's ICO is increasingly active in their efforts to reduce offences in anti-spam regulations and data breaches. In 2017, we witnessed an annual rise in fines of nearly 69 percent, from £2.9 to £4.9 million. A total of 104 companies has been fined a total of £8.7 million for failures since August 2015.
Cost of a data breach is becoming more serious every year. Latest IBM-Ponemon study reports an average figure of $3.92 million which is 12% higher than it was just five years ago.
Verkada, a major provider of surveillance cameras throughout the United States, suffered a data breach that exposed the contents of over 150,000 of its live camera feeds.
The Most Potent Banking Malware Receives Updates Allowing Hackers More Control Over Infected Devices
Anubis, one of the most potent banking malware, has received new updated features including one that allows hackers to detect when the user is looking at their Android phone.
A threat actor sold for an undisclosed amount a toolkit to conceal and execute malicious code without detection on most graphics cards, including AMD, Nvidia, and Intel.
It took two months for the public to learn of the Blackbaud ransomware supply chain attack, and has led to data breaches in more than a hundred universities and nonprofit organizations.
