One of the world’s largest electronics manufacturers, Foxconn, has experienced a cyber attack on its North American operation by the Ransomware-as-a-Service Nitrogen cybercrime gang.
WEF2019 global risk report has named cyber attacks and data breaches as the fourth and fifth most serious risks facing the world, and will do more damage than man-made environmental disasters.
Hot on the heels of the U.S. bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities, a joint cybersecurity advisory has warned critical infrastructure organizations of cyber threats stemming from Iranian-backed malicious actors.
A massive data leak has exposed over 8.7 billion records of primarily Chinese people stored on an unsecured Elasticsearch cluster on bulletproof infrastructure.
A Nokia security breach has leaked source code from a third-party software development partner, exposing the company’s sensitive data, including keys and hardcoded credentials.
Proposed new features and app concepts are reportedly being nixed solely because of fears they will violate Apple’s privacy rules. Examples include scrapped plan to allow voice purchases via Siri.
Pegasus spyware was used to track journalists, lawyers and activists in Jordan from 2019 to late 2021. Some specific incidents occurred on iPhones after Apple had sued NSO Group and removed exploits.
A credential stuffing attack on American outdoor apparel company, The North Face, compromised nearly 200,000 accounts just two years after a similar incident.
The Australia TikTok ban follows the same concerns that have prompted actions by its allies; fears that sensitive personal or classified information will find its way from government devices to ByteDance servers in China.
The CCPA went live at the start of 2020, and study of data subject requests from the first half of its first year indicates that users are primarily using it to opt out of the sale of personal information.
