The Police Service of Northern Ireland was slapped with a hefty ICO fine for a preventable data leak that exposed the personal information of its officers and staff.
Chinese hackers have just pulled off one of India’s biggest cyber fraud ever by convinceing the head of a local Indian subsidiary of an Italian firm to wire $18.6 million from bank accounts in India to a bank account in Hong Kong.
Proposed fruits of the Irish DPC's three-year investigation into Facebook's consent and transparency violations are GDPR fines that would amount to a maximum of about $36 million to $42 million, or what the company makes roughly every two hours.
Contentious WhatsApp privacy update has caused new consumer complaints to be filed by watchdog groups, which say that users are being unfairly pressured into accepting.
Four of the largest U.S. wireless carriers, T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon and Sprint, face a potential collective fine of $200 million for failing to secure location data sold to third parties.
North Carolina and Florida have banned ransomware payments for government agencies. Pennsylvania, New York, Texas, Arizona and New Jersey have also had bills of this nature recently come up for consideration.
Google says initial access broker Exotic Lily targeted at least 650 organizations with about 5,000 phishing emails per day to obtain credentials for selling to ransomware gangs.
Cybercriminals inserted malicious ads into Microsoft Bing Search AI chatbot to trick unsuspecting users into downloading trojanized software from spoofed domains.
About half a million dollars was taken from retirement accounts in an early April cyber attack on Australia's largest superannuation funds, information first shared by an anonymous inside source that provided details to the media.
A new survey reveals deepening frustration with legacy IT vendors such as Microsoft, as supply chain attacks and ransomware attacks fed by vulnerabilities in their software become the "new normal.”
