Broadband Provider Brightspeed has experienced a data breach that exposed over 1 million customers, with hackers threatening to disconnect home internet customers.
CFIUS will be conducting a national security review on TikTok as top U.S. lawmakers think the company is used by the Chinese state to censor political opinion or snoop on U.S. citizens.
Australia has been experiencing unusually serious problems with data breaches for nearly a year now. HWL Ebsworth, one of the country's most prominent law firms, appears to have had a huge amount of client information stolen by ALPHV/BlackCat.
Though the fine is not one of the largest issued by CNIL (or for general GDPR violations across the bloc), the case is noteworthy in that Discord is mostly being taken to task for not providing default or built-in security options rather than the fallout of a specific data breach.
For the first time in its publication history of nearly 20 years, Verizon's annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) is tracking vulnerability exploitation as the leading initial access method for attackers. Stolen credentials had been the #1 method for the entirety of the report's history up to this year.
Checkout bots are gaining popularity in coronavirus pandemic to snap up delivery time slots through Chrome extensions including those that may contain security vulnerabilities.
API security flaws on millions of vehicles from 16 car manufacturers expose them to unauthorized remote control, account takeovers, and personal information disclosure. Multiple car manufacturers using nearly identical car systems with almost similar functionality.
Researchers found a security flaw in OneDrive File Picker that grants apps access to any and all files in the account when the user grants permission for just one file upload, with the language governing this process cited as too "vague" and "unclear" to communicate what is actually happening.
While U.S., U.K. and Australia called on Facebook not to deploy end-to-end encryption, many privacy advocates had voiced their support to protect users’ privacy and rights to express freely.
Russian hackers linked to the country’s Federal Security Service (FSB) Center 16 have exploited vulnerable Cisco devices for over a year to target critical infrastructure organizations for cyber espionage.
