Lawsuit alleges that Springhill Medical Center was responsible for the death of a baby after ransomware attack prevented doctors from monitoring the baby's heartbeat during delivery.
Brands have long walked a delicate tightrope between tracking for commercial purposes while ensuring the privacy of the data is compliant with a hodgepodge of regulations. Now, could the changes of the last few months be what America needs to finally enact a national privacy law?
Concerns about reprisal by the Taliban prompted the UK government to secretly grant asylum to thousands of Afghans and allow them to immigrate to the country, in the wake of a 2022 data leak by the Ministry of Defence.
Microsoft claims that its new passwordless methods reduce password use by over 20% and result in users signing in faster. The company added passkeys as an option for personal accounts along with a password manager for Windows Hello early last year.
Some security experts worry that open source Twitter code would thus not be tremendously helpful in revealing how the system selects content, but would create avenues of attack for threat actors that could now scrutinize its internal workings.
A new report from the FPF and ABLI promotes a shift from consent-based models to a focus on accountability for data processors in the interest of improving consistency between different jurisdictions and different data protection laws.
The EU Agency for Cybersecurity says that autonomous vehicle manufacturers should address various cybersecurity challenges before venturing on European roads.
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.
AXA made news earlier in the month for opting to drop ransomware payment coverage from new cyber insurance policies in France. Operations in Asia were subsequently hit by a ransomware attack.
Alibaba's web scraping data leak exposed over 1 billion user records leading to the imprisonment of the implicated software developer and his employer for three years.
