A wildlife park in Hangzhou has landed in some legal trouble after implementing a facial recognition system. A court agreed the sudden switch to this system constitutes privacy infringement.
Hackers compromised more than 300,000 Spotify accounts in a credential stuffing attack exploiting a third-party database containing 380 million credentials stolen from other breaches.
South Korea has fined Facebook $6.1 million for privacy violations. Facebook shared the personal information of 3.3 million residents without collecting proper user consent.
New report from Allianz finds that cyber crime causes the most expensive insurance losses, but that internal failures are the most frequent overall reasons for cyber claims.
A German court has slashed a GDPR fine assessed to one of the country's largest telecommunications service providers by over 90%, calling it "unreasonably high."
Privacy groups are raising alarms about some EU aid programs. Funds, equipment and training are reportedly going to repressive governments and being used explicitly for domestic surveillance.
Most businesses are concerned about cloud security. However, only a few adopted specialized online cloud security capabilities, while the majority were using inappropriate tools.
Holiday Shopping ID Theft Survey revealed that consumers are more concerned about retail data breaches, are more aware of identity protection services, and has embraced online shopping largely due to the pandemic.
Among the major highlights of the Verizon Cyber Espionage Report: criminal organizations and former employees play a trivial role in overall attempts, the overwhelming majority come from states.
Despite the NSA warning of hackers exploiting bugs such as Bluekeep and Heartbleed vulnerabilities and updates being released, millions of vulnerable systems remained unpatched.
