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.
SOMI contends that Palantir could be participating in both knowing and unknowing privacy violations based on its involvement with "predictive policing" technologies.
The increase in cyber threats is forcing general counsels to grow into a strategic leadership role in terms of management of data risks, per the General Counsel Report 2021.
Report estimates that the cybersecurity workforce is still facing a shortfall in spite of a general improvement in 2020. Global growth would need to be at 89% to make up for it.
Hackers demanded $17 million in Compal's security breach despite its denial of the ransomware attack. Compal also claimed that its production lines were not affected.
