The overturn of Roe v. Wade has left thousands of patients seeking abortions in a tough spot. The HHS Office for Civil Rights has issued new guidelines in response, laying out federal protections for patient privacy under HIPAA.
The AI agent incident is described as "unprecedented" as the model went to "extreme lengths" to achieve a security testing goal, independently opting to find a path to internet access and break into Hugging Face to obtain secret solution information.
Media streaming company Roku has disclosed a data breach that affected over 15,000 people and allowed fraudsters to purchase subscriptions using stored credit cards.
After weathering two waves of credential stuffing attacks thus far in 2024, the second of which involved over half a million compromised accounts, Roku is now requiring that customers set up a 2FA method.
There are valid reasons to have serious privacy concerns about Facebook’s new direction. The announcement of the Facebook metaverse has thus far been met with at least as much suspicion and hesitancy as it has enthusiasm.
After being informed of the planned launch of the AI chatbot in the EU, the DPC instructed Google to file a data protection impact assessment. The launch is waiting on Google to address privacy concerns.
A breach of the Ronin network’s bridge between it and the popular NFT game "Axie Infinity" netted an attacker the equivalent of $625 million in Ethereum and other coins, making it one of the largest DeFi Platfform thefts to date.
DeFi projects continue to be a popular target of attack for advanced hackers, as a number of finance pools associated with Curve were hit on July 31 for a total loss of about $61 million. The attack appears to have been the result of a vulnerability found in certain versions of the Vyper programming language.
Royal Mail Group warned of disruptions in international export services and stopped accepting parcels for international delivery after a LockBit “cyber incident” caused severe disruption to export services.
LockBit ransomware attack that severely hampered Royal Mail's international delivery system would have cost no less than $70 million, according to chats leaked by the attackers. The original ransom demand was $80 million.
