Cisco has launched a data breach investigation and pulled its development portal offline after a hacker listed the company’s infrastructure information on a hacking forum.
A new report from Mandiant indicates that 70% of 2023's total of 138 exploited vulnerabilities were zero-days when first used, with the average time-to-exploit (TTE) dropping drastically from 32 days to just five.
The Pokémon developer has confirmed that a data breach took place about two months ago and was the result of illegal access to the company's internal network, spilling internal secrets and some employee contact information.
A joint cybersecurity advisory warns of Iranian hackers using brute-force attacks to compromise critical infrastructure to obtain initial access for sale to other threat actors.
USDoD has a years-long history of data breaches, leaking the stolen information or offering it for sale on hacking forums. This has included some extremely damaging collections of information, the largest of which thus far has been the National Public Data breach.
Japanese electronics company Casio is still reeling from a ransomware attack that disrupted its systems, two weeks after the incident occurred and with no expected recovery timeline.
Business and employment networking giant LinkedIn is being hit with a big GDPR fine for failure to obtain sufficiently informed consent for ad tracking, and for not having a valid basis for its processing of first party personal data for this purpose.
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.
UnitedHealth Group (UHG) has confirmed that the February 2024 Change Healthcare data breach leaked the sensitive personal information of 100 million people, making it the worst healthcare leak in history.
The noyb privacy complaint notes that Pinterest has invoked the "legitimate interest" exception to user consent for ad tracking, one of a small handful of such exceptions provided for by the GDPR. The problem for the company is that Meta has already tried this tack and failed.
