Reasonable anonymous transactions have been proposed for the digital yuan, which is currently in testing in multiple regions of the country. PBOC officials have also promised to deliver the best privacy protection, though questions remain.
Some of Apple’s new privacy rules have gone active ahead of iOS 14.5, and the most recent looks to make device fingerprinting a thing of the past on the App Store.
Banco Santander, a Spanish multinational bank, has suffered a third-party data breach after a threat actor accessed a database managed by an external vendor.
Facebook’s ban of deepfake videos appears to be a focus on the wrong threat as the technology has not shown to be advanced or user-friendly enough to create damaging "fake news”.
Nokia's Threat Intelligence Report noted an increase in IoT attacks stemming from poor security practices, the use of automated tools by attackers, and Internet visibility of devices.
Leveraging the Hancitor malware, the ransomware gang earned $43.9 m after compromising 49 critical infrastructure entities in finance, government, healthcare, manufacturing, and IT.
An in-depth study from the University of Oxford has examined 24,000 Apple App Store and Google Play apps, and found that Apple's "walled garden" approach has not necessarily made a difference in terms of app privacy.
A phishing campaign by state-sponsored Iranian hackers has targeted over 100 government entities and other organizations with version 4 of the Phoenix malware backdoor.
Guardicore discovered that the Microsoft Exchange server’s Autodiscover feature design flaw leaked credentials of 100,000 users by trying to authenticate on untrusted third-party servers.
Recent Equifax downgrade surprised Wall street as it’s the first company in history to have ratings outlook downgraded due to escalating litigation and regulatory costs from 2017 data breach and increase in cybersecurity spending.
