Consumer trust has taken a hit over the past year. Retailers now need to offer identity protection services to regain confidence of holiday shoppers.
Demand for privacy pros sparked a 30% increase in data privacy jobs in the previous year, with projections that the trend will continue through 2022 and beyond.
New economic impact assessment shows 75% of California businesses will be impacted by upcoming CCPA legislation and will run into initial compliance costs estimated at $55 billion.
Called the "Policy Puppetry Attack," the new prompt injection attack focuses on formatting requests to look like the contents of one of the policy files that AI models rely on for their security and safety guidelines.
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has announced that Google AI model Pathways Language Model 2 (PaLM 2) will be subject to a cross-border statutory inquiry under Article 35 of the GDPR.
Attackers are targeting the DocuSign APIs to generate large amounts of fake invoices, which often skirt automated security and land in inboxes as they originate from "docusign.net" and appear to be coming from legitimate companies.
Global chipmaker Nexperia confirmed a significant data breach after hackers accessed some of its systems and potentially stole sensitive information, including the company’s intellectual property.
UK Police have arrested a 17-year-old suspected Scattered Spider member accused of the MGM hack that disrupted casinos and hotels in Las Vegas on September 12, 2023, costing over $100 million in recovery.
Octo Tempest has gradually stepped up from data theft, to data extortion, and now to ransomware as of this summer (becoming an affiliate of the ALPHV/BlackCat group). The cybercriminals are entirely financially motivated and nearly always leads with either a phishing email/message or a social engineering call. It also looks to execute SIM swap attacks.
Recent survey on internet security and trust shows social media companies are the core problem to online trust which could affect future growth and development of the digital economy.
