New Data Protection Rules From Chinese Government Targeted Squarely at Limiting Power of Tech Giants
China’s data protection rules are now being strengthened in a way that seems to be aimed specifically at limiting the power of tech giants.
In line with the Trump administration's recent overtures toward a nationwide TikTok ban, the new bill if passed would ban TikTok on all devices throughout the US government.
The Internet Archive has been under heavy attack in the past week, suffering both a major data breach and a series of potent DDoS attacks that have taken it offline.
The Medusa ransomware gang is claiming responsibility for an alleged NASCAR data breach that allegedly leaked one terabyte of data.
As email usage expands annually, so do email-borne threats, with three-quarters of IT security leaders anticipating a severe email security incident in the next 12 months.
Portuguese energy company EDP suffered a ransomware attack by hacking group Ragnarok who threatened to dump 10TB of stolen data if the company does not pay a ransom of $10.9 million.
The Akira ransomware gang earned approximately $42 million in ransoms after breaching over 250 victims across three continents between March 2023, when the group emerged, and January 2024.
Cisco Duo customers may have had VoIP and SMS MFA logs exposed to an attacker in early April. Third party breach is the result of one of the provider's employees being phished. The attackers then seemed to target the MFA logs of specific clients of interest.
MGM's ransomware attack in September is expected to have $100 million negative impact for Q3 due to cleanup costs and lost business. The company believes that its cybersecurity insurance will cover nearly all of the ransomware attack's associated costs.
Nissan said a third-party data breach allowed hackers to access and exfiltrate customer information for software testing but stored on a misconfigured cloud service by a contracted software development firm.
