Israeli media reported that several Israeli companies and a nonprofit were breached in a new cyber attack wave attributed to an Iranian ransomware gang motivated by Middle Eastern geopolitics.
Several Android apps using misconfigured cloud services for storage, real-time communication and synchronization exposed sensitive information of over 100 million smartphone users.
A budding bipartisan movement toward establishing a federal data privacy bill began to take shape about two years ago appears to be moving forward, as legislation that was shelved in 2019 has been taken up again.
New studies find that over 40% of consumers now prefer to use the guest checkout option when shopping, and an almost identical share now also use some sort of ad blocking software.
Ad spend is barely impacted by the new Apple IDFA restrictions at worst, and even slightly up according to at least one ad company, but iOS 14.5 adoption has been unusually low.
As with Apple's new program, the proposed privacy labels are meant to give end users a quick reference to the range of data that Android apps are asking for.
AXA made news earlier in the month for opting to drop ransomware payment coverage from new cyber insurance policies in France. Operations in Asia were subsequently hit by a ransomware attack.
Faced with unrelenting policy, Apple has reportedly turned over servers containing iCloud data to the charge of the Chinese government.
Security researchers discovered a new Android malware targeting sixty banks in Europe. The banking trojan overlays legitimate apps and mimics user interaction to commit fraud.
A court battle is brewing as a collection of states challenges the Census Bureau's use of "differential privacy," a new method for anonymizing and securing census data.
