Second annual review of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield went better than the first, but the European Commission is still waiting on the U.S. government to nominate a permanent Ombudsperson to handle potential complaints and requests from EU citizens.
The campaign was conducted by malicious hackers who sold the stolen credentials off, with much of the info being put to use in spam and phishing campaigns. The attack simply made use of open-source tools to scan IP ranges for potentially vulnerable Git config files.
Report from the Internet Society, in partnership with Consumers International, shows continuing concerns with IoT security and privacy, where 53% of consumers distrust connected devices to protect their privacy and handle information in a responsible manner.
The UK has followed the US in enacting a TikTok ban that applies to government devices, citing national security concerns. The ban is part of a broader review of potential social media app threats.
Slack debuted its long-awaited direct messaging feature but within just a few days it was gone, pulled due to a technical oversight that created major security concerns.
New report indicates that Twitter may have great value as a vulnerability management tool. Twitter mentions are twice as good as CVSS when it comes to measuring an organization's potential exploitability.
Chinese actors are deploying thousands of LLM gateways to clone U.S. frontier models, share credentials, and bypass geographic restrictions, rate limits, and usage metering.
South Korea's Meta fine comes as the result of a four-year investigation into Facebook's data collection practices between 2018 and 2022. Meta was found to have collected user information about sexual orientation, political views and religion among other items.
The UN’s aviation agency, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), suffered a data breach that leaked the personal information of nearly 12,000 job applicants.
Study showed that 75% of IT decision-makers believed hybrid or remote working to be the future of the workplace, and most also believed that this has led to an increase in security incidents.
