Following stories of smartphones and smart home virtual assistants leaking user data, new wave of IoT privacy concerns rising as researchers found smart devices sharing personal information with tech giants.
Cyber insurance companies are choosing to settle things quickly with a ransom payment during ransomware attacks for fear of covering all the business interruption costs and delays of re-booting a company from scratch.
Facebook announced an app suspension of “ten of thousands” of apps as part of its privacy investigation. The initiative extends to any app that refuses to answer Facebook how user data is utilized, shared and monetized.
New feature in iOS 13 that will inform users when apps on their iPhone are trying to collect location data may be bad news for tech giants like Facebook who use the information to serve up targeted ads.
People of an entire country were put at risk with Ecuador data breach of 20 million user information. The breach has accelerated a data privacy law that has been under consideration for months.
Privacy should be a top-of-mind issue as new privacy regulations keep appearing globally. However, recent report shows organizations are still unprepared to deal with them effectively.
Draft NIST Privacy Framework For Protecting Individual Privacy Will Also Enhance Enterprise Security
A draft NIST Privacy Framework meant for all organizations, regardless of size or sector, to use in improving privacy and security has been released for public comments.
International digital rights NGO, Access Now, called to strike down the Privacy Shield agreement after the third annual review of the framework between U.S. and Europe.
51 top CEOs from companies such as Amazon, IBM, Dell and JP Morgan Chase are pushing for new federal privacy legislation to establish a stable privacy policy environment.
Even though the recent Instagram data leak only expose contact information of millions of users, knowledge of phone numbers could create a pathway for SIM swap attacks.
