The primary concern with Twitter’s zero-day security breach is that authoritarian governments might tie names to the anonymous accounts of activists, political opposition and journalists they are targeting.
Vulnerability in Twitter's API in 2021 caused a data leak that exposed private user profile information of at least 5.4 million users. The information is now available for free via a dark web forum.
The US Cyber Command is expecting the TrickBot botnet to be involved in election interference attempts, and is actively running persistent operations against it along with Microsoft.
The AWS outage that caused widespread global disruption for about half of Monday has officially been resolved, but numerous lingering issues remain that could take days or even weeks to fully resolve.
Facebook and Apple have been going back and forth over changes made to iOS 14 for the benefit of user privacy. Facebook appears to be shifting to an offensive posture as it mulls an antitrust lawsuit.
Car rental company Avis has suffered a data breach impacting nearly 300,000 customers after an unauthorized third party accessed a business application.
2020 and 2021 were record years for ransomware payments at about $765 million. The take collected by ransomware operators is now down 40% to $457 million in 2022.
US and UK water companies Veolia North America and Southern Water have confirmed a ransomware attack and a data breach that leaked personal information.
The EU and US have reached an agreement in principle on a Privacy Shield replacement, but details of the data transfer deal are not yet available to the public.
The Apple privacy complaint is significant as France Digitale is a major lobbying organization, representing over 2,000 companies that include most of the country's venture capital firms and entrepreneurs.
