The unique device identifier that Apple uses for personalized ad tracking, the IDFA, has been in the news lately. You may soon be hearing just as much about Google's equivalent for Android, the AAID.
Microsoft says its Azure cloud platform was hit by the largest of its kind DDoS attack from a Turbo Mirai-class IoT botnet, Aisuru, harnessing over 500,000 residential IPs.
Study from Citizen Lab Toronto explores the WeChat ecosystem and finds that data sharing can exceed what the user expects, and that the privacy policy does not always make the extent of this sharing clear.
According to U.S. Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, the U.S. is at “a critical point.” With Russian hackers breaking into the U.S. power grid and gaining access to utility control rooms, they have the opportunity to “throw the switch”, plunging the nation into darkness and chaos.
Microsoft has named "Midnight Blizzard," an established team of Russian state sponsored hackers also referred to as NOBELIUM and Cozy Bear, as the culprit behind a recent security breach that compromised high-level corporate email accounts.
Natural gas supplier Superior Plus suffered a ransomware attack that knocked its systems offline although customer safety and security and personal data were not affected.
Hundreds of NATO documents of "extreme gravity" were reportedly stolen and made available on the dark web, and the Portuguese government is facing tough questions about why the breach was not discovered for weeks.
Dole Food Company has confirmed a ransomware attack that disrupted regional operations. Leaked memo shows that production was temporarily halted in several plants and deliveries suspended.
Retailer WH Smith suffered a cyber attack that leaked employee data, including names, dates of birth, and National Insurance Numbers. The incident leaked the data of current and former employees, but customer data was unaffected.
China has added a "color code" in their national surveillance system to mark citizens according to their level of COVID-19 contagion risk and flag those with yellow and red codes for quarantine.
