DLA Piper finds that GDPR fines were up 7x in 2021. Data regulators are also receiving more data breach notifications, a trend that has steadily increased each year.
Aflac Japan is investigating a data breach that leaked the personal information of over 4.38 million customers and sales agents after unauthorized access to the policyholders' portal.
Amazon announced its facial recognition suite Rekognition is able to read fear as an added emotion. This capability has raised new privacy concerns if implemented by law enforcement agencies.
Several New Zealand government agencies were impacted by a ransomware attack on Mercury IT, a 25-employee firm that serves dozens of public and private organizations in the country. New Zealand’s Ministry of Justice and Health New Zealand (Te Whatu Ora) have confirmed being impacted by the cyber incident.
A data breach on consumer lender TMX and its subsidiaries Titlemax, Titlebucks, and Instaloan leaked the personal information, including social security numbers, of 4.8 million customers.
Several of the California AI safety law's terms are even more stringent than comparable rules put into play in the European Union. But despite seemingly broad support there is still criticism of its expected negative impact on innovation, and from the privacy and security side some note that key regulations have yet to be placed on AI developers.
Cybersecurity researchers discovered over 80,000 Hikvision cameras exposed online without security fixes for an critical exploited vulnerability whose patch was released in September 2021.
The threat of cyber attacks on connected cars is getting very real as report shows majority of new smart vehicles from top 10 auto manufacturers are vulnerable and will be connected to Internet.
Popular domain registrar and web hosting company GoDaddy was slapped with an FTC order mandating a robust information security program for allegedly failing to stop data breaches and misleading customers about its cybersecurity practices.
New report from IANS Research and Artico Search shows that the average security budget is only up by 6% this year, representing a 65% decrease in cybersecurity spending from the prior year.
