The rise of AI has had a seismic impact on the digital threat landscape—but its implications for data storage and retention are often overlooked.
Hackers could exploit ProxyToken authentication bypass vulnerability to steal victims’ emails and personally identifiable information from vulnerable Microsoft Exchange servers.
Group of nine privacy and anti-monopoly advocacy groups have called on the FTC to break up Facebook, citing the tech company’s long track record of ignoring privacy concerns, the group also called on the FTC to fine Facebook as much as $2 billion.
15 year-old flaw in a default python module introduces supply chain vulnerability to over 350,000 open source projects and the applications that use them, including SDKs, AI/ML, security, management, and developer tools.
The long-running Qakbot malware botnet was disrupted by international law enforcement action in August, but its operators appear to still have some capability and are continuing to run spam email campaigns that attempt to pass ransomware.
Qantas Airways Privacy Breach Exposed Passenger Information, Allowed Booking and Flight Cancellation
Australia’s national carrier, Qantas Airways, has apologized for a privacy breach that exposed passenger information and allowed booking, flight cancellation, and seat changes.
The Qantas breach appears to be isolated to a third-party contact center that the airline uses for customer service queries. Unusual activity was detected on June 30, leading to discovery of the data breach and "immediate" actions to contain it, and up to six million customers may be impacted.
Citizen Lab reports that QuaDream spyware is being used by governments in at least 10 countries to track activists, journalists and political opponents among other questionable uses.
A new poll from Deloitte finds there is an immediate and significant cyber risk from "harvest now decrypt later" (HNDL) attacks, in which attackers steal encrypted information and simply sit on it until quantum computing advances make it trivial to crack.
Concrete steps to address the threat quantum computing poses to current cryptographic standards have been taken by NIST, as it has selected four algorithms for future use.
