FTC has just issued a record-setting $5 billion Facebook fine for privacy breaches from the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Is the U.S. government changing the way they regulate technology companies on user privacy and data?
Open-source software company Red Hat has confirmed a security breach on one of its GitLab instances after a threat actor claimed to have stolen nearly 570 GB of data from across various repositories.
Reddit confirmed a security breach that allowed hackers to access internal business systems after an employee became the victim of a sophisticated phishing attack.
Reddit hack shows that the industry standard two-factor authentication approach in certain cases might not offer as much protection of vulnerable data as has long been thought.
Reddit has been assessed £14.47 million in fines by the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) due to failures to adequately age-gate children under 13, which in turn led to impermissible collection and use of their personal data as well as potential exposure to mature content. The penalty is one of the largest it has issued thus far, and the largest for a children's privacy offense.
The Reddit suit claims that Anthropic began regularly scraping the site in December 2021. After being asked to stop, Anthropic issued a public statement in July 2024 indicating that it had stopped all crawling of Reddit for AI training data.
Security researchers at Wiz Research have discovered a critical vulnerability in the Redis in-memory database that could allow an attacker to gain remote code execution (RCE) capabilities and take over the host.
Report shows that not only half of employees are less likely to follow safe data practices while remote working, U.S. workers are also more nonchalant about data security than their U.K. counterparts.
Economist Nouriel Roubini predicts first-ever cyber war in 2020 between U.S. and countries such as China, Russia, Iran and North Korea, with US presidential election being the catalyst.
Vibe coding AI Replit put out some bad vibes by hallucinating components that it added to a project on its own, such as a database of 4,000 fictional people, ignored repeated orders, and eventually deleting an entire database.
