Verizon's data breach report for 2021 frames the degree to which the pandemic has influenced cyber criminal activity, with the focus shifting strongly toward work-at-home infrastructure.
Facebook has now exhausted its options for legal challenges as the Irish DPC has ended its stay on the EU-US data transfer ban. The company may be ordered to stop transfers as early as this summer.
Apple boasts of stopping some $1.5 billion in attempted app fraud in 2020 and removing one million malicious apps, but complaints of app-based scams are still quite common.
Study shows that mobile application security is not a given, as thousands of the most popular apps within the boundaries of the official app stores contain common vulnerabilities.
More than half of organizations experienced a third-party data breach attributed to external privileged access, and subsequent lack of control, auditing, and monitoring.
Biden administration executive order looks to make immediate improvement to the nation's cyber defenses, with the headline item being new reporting requirements for federal government vendors that experience cybersecurity breaches.
Which? report says old routers supplied by UK internet providers Vodafone, Virgin, Sky, EE, and others put millions of internet users at security risk of cyber attacks.
Check Point discovered another security vulnerability in Qualcomm chips affecting 40% of smartphones, allowing hackers to inject code in Android phones, including Google, Samsung, LG, Xiaomi, and One Plus brands.
AXA France, regional division of European insurance giant AXA Group and France's largest general insurer, has announced that it will no longer reimburse ransomware payments for customers within the country.
More stringent data collection rules went into effect in China at the beginning of May. The government continued to show that it is serious about its regulatory stance by sweeping up 33 mobile apps.
