Experian’s data broking department providing marketing analytics is in trouble with the UK ICO, requiring it to make major changes to its direct marketing services.
Source code leak of software belonging to over 50 high profile companies was made available online due to misconfiguration of their software development platforms.
Attacks against healthcare institutions have become more prevalent. Driving this are several factors, including the dramatic drop in the value of stolen credit card data and the relative ease with which attackers can breach healthcare institutions.
Each of the fined companies learned that they had been breached during the SolarWinds hack in 2020 or 2021. Each was found by the SEC to have negligently minimized its cybersecurity disclosures in ways that could mislead investors, but all using somewhat different language.
Apple is feeling pressure to reaffirm its privacy stance due to two recent news stories: its cooperation with subpoenas from the Trump administration that saw phone data handed over, and a case in which iPhone repair techs stole compromising photos.
Top 30 travel apps were found not to meet basic security and privacy standards in a recent study. Should users take the risks for great travel deals and savings in money?
Deloitte foresees a collection of privacy enhancing technologies battling to become a new ad tech standard that ensures compliance with evolving global data protection regulations while reducing a seemingly inevitable blow to revenues as much as possible.
According to a new survey conducted by the IAPP and EY, Global 500 companies will spend a combined $7.8 billion over the next year on GDPR compliance. Those escalating compliance costs will mostly result from new hiring, as corporations race to catch up with changes to privacy laws.
The new CSC report warns that national cyber defense is "stalling" in most areas and "slipping" in some. Its central point of criticism is that only 35% of 82 recommendations that the commission made in 2020 have been fully implemented, with about 13% still facing barriers to progress and another 18% making progress but still distant from actual implementation.
Hacker "fxmsp" has been selling backdoor access to hundreds of corporate networks in 44 countries for two years, pulling in well over a million dollars from clients.
