1.6 million unemployment claimants in Washington may have just received an identity theft headache. A hack of the State Auditor's office has exposed extremely sensitive personal information.
Report from UK security think tank RUSI finds that fraud has "reached epidemic levels" in the country and that the volume of attempts should be viewed as a national security threat.
KELA found that the sale of network initial access methods in underground forums was worth millions of dollars, and brokers resorted to selling in private conversations.
A controversial SDK used for location tracking remains present in hundreds of Android apps, in spite of bans. Data broker X-Mode's tracking software was forbidden from use in the world's two major app stores in 2020.
Hacker created a Telegram bot to sell information belonging to 533 million Facebook users. Buyers could search users' mobile numbers using account IDs or vice versa.
Privacy pros with the necessary technical skills are in-demand and hard to find even for well-funded enterprises, according to a new report from IT governance association ISACA.
Hackers breached UScellular’s retail CRM software and accessed customer data, including PIN and CPNI, and ported some subscribers’ mobile phone numbers to a different carrier.
Cisco Report Finds Data Privacy a Top Priority for Security Professionals During Pandemic Conditions
Data privacy report from Cisco finds that the roles of security professionals are evolving in response to regulatory changes and the specific pressures created by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The beleaguered cybersecurity teams of SMEs are being forced to become very creative in keeping up with modern threats, juggling a variety of outsourced solutions in the face of an onslaught of attacks.
While one might reasonably infer on their own that digital fraud is on the rise, a new report from fraud detection firm DataVisor breaks down the current trends and finds a confluence of causes.
