A whistleblower says that Ubiquiti downplayed its data breach to protect its stocks. He claims that Ubiquiti was the source of the breach, and hackers gained administrative rights.
PHP open-source team averted a potential supply chain attack after hackers compromised their self-managed Git server and inserted malicious code in PHP’s “under development” version.
The US Senate is now evaluating ad exchanges as a potential threat to national security. The concern stems from digital ad auctions conducted in foreign countries.
The large amount of the Booking.com fine is a point of contention as it stretches to the limit of what the GDPR allows for a data breach notification incident that involved relatively little sensitive personal information.
Hackers compromised carding site Card Mafia exposing 300,000 user account credentials. A hacker later offered the stolen data for free on a different hacking forum.
Snapchat has explored plans to skirt Apple's new privacy rules and continue tracking users, making use of banned device fingerprinting techniques rather than the IDFA identification number.
Some of Apple’s new privacy rules have gone active ahead of iOS 14.5, and the most recent looks to make device fingerprinting a thing of the past on the App Store.
WEF's newly-released principles for board governance of cybersecurity offer a base of best practices for dealing with increasing cyber risk, with a new element being an emphasis on an organization-wide focus.
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.
