Amazon was penalized for excessive employee monitoring, insufficient data minimization, and failing to meet transparency and security requirements. Much of the GDPR fine centers on the hand scanners that are issued to warehouse employees.
Video hosting platform Vimeo has confirmed a data breach stemming from a third-party performance metrics platform, Anodot, affecting approximately 119,000 users and customers.
A joint report from China’s National Computer Virus Emergency Response Centre (CVERC) and cybersecurity firm 360 accuses the US CIA of aggressively hacking China and other countries with advanced cyber weapons, including an assortment of trojans, malware, botnets and zero-days.
The Google privacy lawsuit was first filed in 2020, and had been scheduled to go before the District Court on February 5. It is now on pause as the lawyers prepare a binding term sheet. Claimants are seeking a total of at least $5 billion.
Indian cryptocurrency exchange platform WazirX has suffered a security breach that allowed the suspected North Korean Lazarus group to steal $230 million worth of crypto assets.
Credit monitoring giant TransUnion has suffered an apparent Salesforce data breach, affecting over 4.4 million people, with ShinyHunters claiming responsibility.
eCommerce retailers face the most significant risk from automated malicious software, with hackers deploying advanced bad bots in nearly two-thirds of account takeover attacks.
Digital investigations take an important role in criminal justice today but law enforcement agencies face many challenges to drive operational efficiencies and standards in handling digital data.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns about AI-generated phishing text or deepfake audio messages impersonating senior U.S. officials targeting current and former state and federal officials and their contacts.
A third-party data breach involving a U.S. contractor exposed the personal information of over 2 million Aflac cancer and Zurich automobile insurance policyholders in Japan.
