Social media and the internet advertising industry now almost entirely run on algorithmic decision-making models. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are advocating for a "right to explanation" to shed light on them.
The world’s largest cruise operator, Carnival Cruise, has confirmed a data breach that affected nearly 6 million people, with the ShinyHunters hacking group claiming responsibility.
Casio has confirmed a data breach on its ClassPad education platform that impacted over 100,000 customers, including learning institutions in Japan and 148 other countries.
Cathay Pacific makes it clear in their new privacy policy that the airline reserves the right to collect data on every single passenger, all in the name of an effort to know as much as they can especially for the high-end VIP passengers.
A data breach has leaked sensitive medical records of over 15 million French citizens after hackers breached a centralized health information management system used by various health facilities.
While contact tracing apps in different countries are under various stages of deployment, there is an ongoing debate over the use of centralized vs. decentralized tracking in the app.
GRU-affiliated Russian hackers targeted 20 Ukrainian critical infrastructure facilities in March 2024, Ukraine’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) has disclosed.
In what is described as the first known supply chain attack caused by another supply chain attack, the recent breach of 3CX was caused by an employee downloading a compromised piece of trading software.
Numerous recent sources have been indicating a resurgence for ransomware in 2023, and perhaps the best evidence yet comes from a new Chainalysis report: for the first time ever, global ransomware payments topped over $1 billion in cryptocurrency.
Chainalysis finds that state-backed North Korean hackers are more reliant than ever on illicit crypto exchanges in Russia to move money. North Korean hackers are thought to have stolen $3.54 billion in cryptocurrency over the last seven and a half years.
