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.
A massive data leak stemming from a cyber attack on a third-party subcontractor has affected Swiss banks UBS and Pictet, as well as over a dozen other multinational companies, potentially including auditing firm KPMG.
UnitedHealth Group has released further details about the devastating Change Healthcare attack that caused widespread damage throughout the US, taking large chunks of revenue from some care providers and in some cases keeping patients from needed medication. The group has confirmed that it made a ransom payment to restore service.
Companies must show that they are constantly innovating but they must also show that they are taking into account customer privacy and security to protect personal information. Those that can manage this delicate balancing act between customer privacy and digital trust will be the winners in the modern digital economy.
ChatGPT, is now allowing users to disable chat history. However, any prior conversations remain logged and available to the company's AI models, and chats will still be retained for 30 days before deletion in order to "fight abuse."
Germany is querying ChatGPT's GDPR compliance in terms of required access to stored personal information, its efforts to inform data subjects of their rights under the law, and how it is handling the data of minors.
