Rogue Meta employees and contractors abused an internal tool called "Oops," which is primarily intended for in-house account recovery for employees and business partners. There were some cases of account hijacking for money.
Recent German privacy case has led to Amazon, Google and Apple stopping human review of recordings from voice assistants. Will this change the game for the technology or should users give up their privacy for better experience?
The situation is very similar to the assorted US bans on TikTok, but concerns about Kaspersky products are not new among federal agencies; the national government banned its civilian agencies from using them in 2017.
Recent New York Times report sheds light on how companies are using smartphone tracking technology to collect, analyze, and resell location data to advertisers and marketing technology.
Apps handling sensitive health data, including some that interface with labs and other entities covered by HIPAA privacy regulations, were found to be sharing health data with third party trackers that provide cues for targeted Facebook ads.
While the fine will hardly break either of the two tech titans, the ruling could provide a precedent on data collection that could prove much more costly in the future if applied to everything else made available on app stores.
After a months-long campaign against the Apple privacy update that impacts personalized advertising, Facebook has shown what appears to be a conciliatory tone.
Israel and Iran may be in a hidden cyber war with both countries attacking each other’s critical infrastructure, causing physical disruptions to the civilian population.
Threat actors leveraged 139 compromised NHS email accounts to send thousands of malicious emails in a credential harvesting phishing campaign and advance-fee scam.
The mass shift to working from home precipitated by the Covid-19 pandemic created massive security challenges. A full 30% of remote workers under the age of 24 say that they circumvent or ignore security policies when they get in the way of getting work done.
