Chinese hackers may have had illicit access to a federal surveillance system for months before being discovered and rousted. The access was apparently gained by compromising US telecoms Verizon and AT&T.
A new report from ad evaluation firm Adalytics finds that some of YouTube’s targeted ads are still slipping through the cracks, and potentially violating federal child privacy law. The revelation has prompted two US Senators to write a letter to the FTC.
Google recently announced that its Privacy Sandbox initiative is now also being rolled out for Android, in a move comparable to the ad tracking privacy changes made by Apple in 2021.
Mirai Botnet Trojans Actively Exploiting Microsoft Azure Vulnerability and Locking Other Hackers Out
Security researchers discovered that Mirai Botnet trojans actively exploited the OMIGOD Azure vulnerability and then closed the OMI SSL port 5896 to prevent others from doing the same.
Over 813,000 apps have been removed from the Apple App Store and Google Play in the first half of 2021. The vast majority (86%) were targeting children and over half had dangerous permissions or no privacy policy.
Caesars Entertainment quietly disclosed its own recent cyber attack in a SEC filing. Unlike MGM, Caesars appears to have skated through their own incident by making a $15 million ransom payment to the hackers.
A leading lobbying group in the Asia Pacific region is raising a warning about China's new proposed cyber security rules for financial firms, sending a letter to the China Securities Regulatory Commission.
A major password breach which was first reported this September has just been confirmed by Zynga. It appears that the 170 million affected users were not notified when the original breach news broke.
Tornado Cash said that the OFAC sanctioned address that was being used to process the $625 million stolen from NFT game Axie Infinity's Ronin bridge had already been blocked.
Survey of nearly 2,000 IT professionals indicates that cloud security has been improving as the need for these services grows, but organizations are still hitting some common stumbling blocks.
