United States Central Command has disclosed that commercially available location data was used to track deployed U.S. military personnel across various theatres of operation.
The report comes from Google’s TAG, which tracks over 30 of these commercial spyware vendors. The current crop of zero-days, which the report saw deployed in late 2022, targets Android and iOS as well as the Chrome web browsers.
Any business in China with more than one million records of personal data, or those with just 10,000 records of sensitive personal data, are looking at new annual compliance audit requirements by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC).
A study was done on the stock market performance of 28 companies that suffered a massive data breach. Even though they do underperform over the long run but not as much as one might think.
Mobile app makers can now use uninstall tracking software to inundate ex-users with advertising designed to win them back. Can app developers continue to use customer data for any purpose which fits their business model – even after users have deleted the mobile app?
Cisco Data Privacy Benchmark Study 2020 shows businesses are seeing big financial benefits from data privacy practices at an average return of 2.7 times on their privacy spend.
A compromise of the popular GitHub Actions tool turned into a massive supply chain attack, at this point thought to be responsible for the follow-on exposure of over 23,000 GitHub repositories.
Though it is not yet a matter of official policy, inside sources indicate CISA is weighing a three-day deadline for fixing critical vulnerabilities in federal government systems that have been observed being exploited elsewhere.
Israel may become a big export player for both offensive and defensive cyber weapons used for cyber espionage as it now takes as little as four months for approval of sale.
DHS is now requesting that the U.S. Congress grant it extraordinary administrative subpoena powers so that it can request ISPs to turn over the contact information for the owners of industrial control systems.
