Awareness of Americans on the collection, use and sale of their personal data is becoming mainstream and public attitudes are shifting strongly in the other direction.
PDF document metadata can contain a variety of information that provides attackers with the reconnaissance details they need to execute a more targeted and sophisticated attack, including ID numbers.
According to an internal investigation that concluded in September of this year, the credit card theft window may have been open for just over 30 months. See Tickets has sold as many as 20 million tickets per year.
After failing to pay the data protection fine or provide any proof of compliance, CNIL is now issuing Clearview AI an overdue payment penalty in the amount of €5.2 million. The facial recognition firm was warned that it could face additional fines of €100,000 per day if it did not comply.
The Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) suffered a data breach stemming from a server misconfiguration that leaked members' personal information.
With the first new release since 2021, the one thing that hasn't changed about the OWASP Top 10 is that "broken access control" is still the lead category after all this time, present as a security risk in 3.73% of the apps that were tested.
A third-party data breach affecting Oxford University’s CareerConnect job portal has exposed personal information belonging to students, alumni, researchers, and employers.
An in-depth study from the University of Oxford has examined 24,000 Apple App Store and Google Play apps, and found that Apple's "walled garden" approach has not necessarily made a difference in terms of app privacy.
Panasonic's Canadian operation suffered a targeted cyber attack with the Conti Ransomware gang taking responsibility and claiming to have stolen 2.8 GB of corporate documents.
The increase in cyber threats is forcing general counsels to grow into a strategic leadership role in terms of management of data risks, per the General Counsel Report 2021.
