The People’s Bank of China has announced that its variation of cryptocurrency, the "digital yuan," will allow anonymous transactions in small amounts in a bid to add at least a token amount of privacy protection.
Cyber insurance firm CNA Financial potentially leaked clients’ data after being the victim of a sophisticated cyber attack that disrupted services. Data obtained may help hackers optimize targeting of firm’s customers.
Notes from a recent ruling by CNIL, France's data protection authority, raised questions about Apple's own privacy compliance even as App Store advertisers are subjected to tougher standards.
California State Comptroller’s office leaked details of 9,000 people after a Microsoft 365 email account of an Unclaimed Property Division employee was hacked in a phishing attack.
NCC Group and Bad Packets detected cyber attacks targeting F5 critical vulnerabilities after proof-of-concept code and patches were released. CISA advised users to prioritize the installation of updates.
A new company policy forbids manufacturing partners from collecting the biometric data of visiting Apple employees, but says nothing about the over one million workers that put Apple's products together in these facilities.
French privacy watchdog CNIL has opened an inquiry into Clubhouse’s handling of user data which may be in conflict with EU privacy laws, most notably the GDPR.
After a months-long campaign against the Apple privacy update that impacts personalized advertising, Facebook has shown what appears to be a conciliatory tone.
The Trump administration had proposed banning TikTok as a national security threat. Cybersecurity researchers from the University of Toronto have come to a different conclusion, though with caveats.
Slack debuted its long-awaited direct messaging feature but within just a few days it was gone, pulled due to a technical oversight that created major security concerns.
