The privacy agreement consists of a list of "shared principles" drawn from "commonalities" in existing national laws, even though some OECD signatories have limited or no data privacy laws at the national or federal level.
FBI is issuing more cyber security alerts than usual, covering human trafficking, COVID-19 scams, vulnerabilities in networking platforms and cloud-based business email compromise campaigns.
Reddit has been assessed £14.47 million in fines by the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) due to failures to adequately age-gate children under 13, which in turn led to impermissible collection and use of their personal data as well as potential exposure to mature content. The penalty is one of the largest it has issued thus far, and the largest for a children's privacy offense.
A massive supply chain attack dubbed Megalodon has infected over 5,500 GitHub repositories with credential-stealing malware, creating backdoors and automated workflows.
The U.S. Federal Government is a behemoth that touches every aspect of American life – and today the services and information needed by U.S. citizens are increasingly found online. However, the latest report on the state of U.S. federal websites indicates that they fail on some key indicators regarding web security.
Without serious privacy reform and a federal law in the US, it may not be possible to draft a Privacy Shield framework that survives another round in the EU court system.
WhatsApp will soon roll out end-to-end encryption for chat backups, shutting down a favorite loophole exploited by law enforcement agencies, and giving WhatsApp an edge of market appeal.
Cyber attack on Japan’s government agencies leaked 76,000 email addresses, and proprietary, business, and air traffic and control data, forcing Fujitsu to disable ProjectWEB.
National ransomware epidemic hits municipalities, school districts and local government agencies with 621 attacks recorded this year. Things are so bad that U.S. is drafting new legislation to prevent, mitigate and respond to future attacks.
Recently discovered Spring4Shell vulnerability has been leveraged to spread Mirai botnet malware in recent attacks. Security researchers say that a recent campaign is focusing on organizations in Singapore.
