The opening of the Irish data center is part of the final stage of a EU privacy plan TikTok kicked off in mid-2021, seeking to address user data security concerns and the legal status of its international data transfers.
The US Department of Treasury and the UK’s Foreign Office have sanctioned 11 Russian nationals for their role in Conti ransomware and TrickBot cybercrime gangs.
MGM, one of the two largest casino-hotel chains on the Strip, has not yet confirmed the nature of the attack, calling it a 'cybersecurity issue.' The properties remain open, but operations such as front desk check-ins and payouts for casino games have had to shift to entirely manual operations.
Johnson & Johnson’s IT service provider IBM has notified over 1 million Janssen CarePath customers of a data breach that leaked personal and medical information.
The most controversial portion of UK's Online Safety Bill appears to be dead in the water, as Ofcom has publicly admitted that the technology to create backdoors into encrypted messaging without breaking it does not exist.
Okta has warned about social engineering attacks by sophisticated actors targeting super administrators by tricking service desk staff into resetting multi-factor authentication for privileged users.
Two Dutch consumer groups, the Privacy Protection Foundation and Consumentenbond, have filed suit against Google over its targeted advertising auctions. The suit is seeking the equivalent of $804 for each Google user harmed by its "constant surveillance" and sharing of personal data.
Citizen Lab reports that the new Pegasus spyware zero-click zero-day impacts the most recent version of iOS (16.6) and likely prior versions dating back to the iPhone 8. As with the prior Pegasus attack vector, victims only need to receive a iMessage to be compromised; they do not need to open the message or interact with it.
Caesars Entertainment quietly disclosed its own recent cyber attack in a SEC filing. Unlike MGM, Caesars appears to have skated through their own incident by making a $15 million ransom payment to the hackers.
Privacy tests have found that every connected car brand collects more personal data than it needs to, and employs it for non-essential purposes. The vast majority are sharing or selling customer data.
