Clearview AI's controversial facial recognition software is facing legal complaints in the EU challenging the troubled company on the basis of violating data protection laws by "scraping" websites.”
Cyber attack on Japan’s government agencies leaked 76,000 email addresses, and proprietary, business, and air traffic and control data, forcing Fujitsu to disable ProjectWEB.
GCHQ is being taken to task for a mass surveillance program first revealed by the Snowden leak, marking the first ruling against the UK government of this nature.
Recent rules passed in India that threaten end-to-end encryption are being challenged in court by WhatsApp. New "traceability" rules require social media platforms with at least five million users to be able to identify the originator of a message.
Some of these new DHS cybersecurity regulations have been in the works for some time, but the rapid rollout of changes comes in response to the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack that created temporary gas shortages.
The SolarWinds hackers are back again, this time leveraging the stolen email account of a United States federal agency to run a phishing campaign against 150 government entities in 24 countries.
The FBI says Americans lost billions from the record number one million complaints of online scams and investment fraud schemes reported during the pandemic.
Though Silicon Valley would prefer data federal privacy laws that are favorable to them to a patchwork of state laws, Big Tech appears to be putting more effort into lobbying at the state level as of late.
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.
