Security researchers have discovered hundreds of federal network devices with exposed management interfaces violating the recently mandated CISA security requirements detailed in the Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 23-02.
The USPTO says that an API vulnerability was present between February 2020 and March 2023, causing a data leak of about 61,000 private residential addresses attached to patent filings.
Officials have warned that the NHS patient data stolen in the University of Manchester cyber attack could become publicly available with potential ramifications. The incident impacted UoM, which holds patient information of 1.1 million patients across 200 hospitals.
Taiwan hardware supplier’s data breach has been traced back to systems integrator Kinmax Technology, which lists a broad variety of tech industry titans as clients: Cisco, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, and Microsoft among them.
A surge in mobile threats continues to impact mobile-powered businesses, with 43% of all compromised devices fully exploited, marking a 187% year-over-year increase.
An Android tracking app sometimes used by parents and employers (along with more unsavory purposes) has been hacked. Data breach affects at least 13,000 devices, along with contact information for about 26,000 customers and location data points for about 13,400 people.
The wording of Google’s latest privacy policy update essentially declares that the entire internet is its domain to scrape for training its AI models and creation of its AI products, a position that is all but assured to generate legal challenges.
In addition to the DDoS campaign and claimed theft of Microsoft accounts, Anonymous Sudan has busied itself with a campaign of attacks against European banks as of late. Microsoft says there is no evidence of a data breach.
Deloitte foresees a collection of privacy enhancing technologies battling to become a new ad tech standard that ensures compliance with evolving global data protection regulations while reducing a seemingly inevitable blow to revenues as much as possible.
Privacy concerns may be getting lost in the stampede to find a 'better Twitter,' as researchers warn that Meta's new app collects much more sensitive personal information than comparable platforms.
