The damage tally from the massive MOVEit data breach continues to go up, as a US government contractor is reporting that 8 to 11 million records of health data have been exposed.
Credit rating agency Experian's Netherlands branch has been assessed a €2.7 million (about $3.2 million) GDPR fine for improper collection of personal data, which was drawn from multiple public and private sources that data subjects were not necessarily aware of.
The Russian hackers call themselves "Killnet" and first made the news in April with declarations of intent to conduct cyber attacks on critical infrastructure in other countries. The group has been linked to prior DDoS campaigns.
The only way to keep a company’s defense up-to-date against ransomware attacks is with constant proactive activity from well-engineered cybersecurity teams.
The first tranche of privacy reforms introduced to Parliament provides the OAIC with new penalties for data violators and a new privacy code for children, along with the addition of a new statutory tort for serious invasions of privacy.
Google’s new “Privacy Sandbox” privacy standards proposal is a compromise solution for programmatic advertising while respecting users’ privacy when they browsing the web.
New report from DataVisor reveals cybercriminals are increasingly targeting mobile channels to commit fraud, with 90% of mobile fraud originating from Android devices.
The CFAA case of Van Buren v. U.S. has concluded with a decision resulting in a clarification of how crimes involving "authorized access" are defined.
The coalition suggests that if privacy regulators sign off on Meta’s ad-free scheme, it will immediately be adopted by every other service that monetizes via personalized advertising. That could undo a great deal of the work GDPR decisions have done.
Security researchers believe that Chinese hackers are to blame for the attack in part because of the "selective" nature of the targets that were chosen for follow-on compromise via malicious software updates. Notepad++ is a free and broadly popular piece of software that is thought to have tens of millions of users worldwide.
