Another social media platform API has been abused for data scraping. A listing offering 700 million LinkedIn profiles has appeared on an underground hacking forum.
North Korea hackers breached South Korea’s Atomic Energy Research Institute using a VPN vulnerability. IssueMakersLab traced one IP address to state-backed Kimsuky.
After 12 years at the head of the Hamburg data protection commission, Johannes Caspar is stepping down. The privacy commissioner returns to academia disillusioned with the GDPR, calling it "broken" and lamenting infighting.
New report from Apple serves as an invective against the practice of sideloading apps to get around the App Store rules. Apple characterizes any sideloaded app as a "serious security risk.”
More than just a facial recognition ban, the proposal calls for automated systems recognizing "gait, fingerprints, DNA, voice, keystrokes and other biometric or behavioral signals" to be kept out of all of the EU's publicly accessible spaces.
Amazon Sidewalk is about to create a nation-spanning "smart network" connecting the devices of its customers. The project is unprecedented, both in terms of capability and in terms of the privacy concerns it is raising.
Recent ruling by the CJEU has given the region's data protection authorities a much greater ability to pursue cases against Big Tech companies that are not headquartered in their territory.
NATO officials warned that state-sponsored cyber attacks on member countries could invoke Article 5 that calls for a coordinated military response against aggressors.
Alibaba's web scraping data leak exposed over 1 billion user records leading to the imprisonment of the implicated software developer and his employer for three years.
Open source software has worked its way into the vast majority of organizations around the world. That makes open source security a universal business issue, and a new report from security firm Veracode presents some very troubling findings.
