Facebook has come up with a clever workaround that takes advantage of Brexit; it's simply going to move local users to California to evade EU privacy rules.
Recent SEC filing disclosed that 18,000 customers installed the SolarWinds backdoor while Microsoft said that it alerted 40 customers targeted by the Russian state-sponsored hackers.
The FTC is expanding its investigations into the business dealings of Big Tech. Nine of the industry's biggest names have been asked to provide the agency with information about their data practices.
Facebook has accused Apple of anticompetitive behavior, pointing to an expectation of disproportionate damage done to small businesses that rely on personalized ads.
Twitter will pay a GDPR fine of €450,000 (about $546,000) in the first EU cross-border enforcement action brought against a tech giant.
Apple's mandatory privacy consent requirements are expected to roll out sometime in early 2021 and apps that do not comply with user tracking is expected to be removed from the app store.
There is a common feeling that Apple’s new privacy labels are unfair. WhatsApp is among the first of the major social media apps to give voice to this sentiment, describing them as "anti-competitive."
Security researchers discovered 33 vulnerabilities in millions of devices using four popular open-source libraries. The bugs allow attacks, including remote code execution and DDoS.
Nation-state hackers with suspected links to Russia were behind the security breach at FireEye. The attackers stole Red Team tools and searched for government customer information.
The IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020 is now federal law, meaning that US government "smart devices" will be subject to a new and more stringent set of security standards.
