Senator Ron Wyden says both Apple and Google are complying with foreign government requests for data from push notifications which can facilitate government surveillance by disclosing apps that the user has installed, the Google or Apple account they use with the phone, and potentially even the text displayed in the notification (if it is not encrypted).
A new regulatory filing disclosed that genetic testing company 23andMe leaked the ancestry information of nearly 7 million users in the October 2023 data breach.
Patient care facilities that are certified for Medicare and Medicaid may be directly required to make improvements under the new healthcare cybersecurity rules. The new cybersecurity strategy also proposes a variety of assistance to other facilities.
noyb notes that the ultimate outcome of this GDPR complaint could set a precedent that makes online privacy very expensive. If Meta's ad-free model is ultimately legitimized, it is likely that all other apps supported by targeted advertising will adopt the same scheme.
The largest messaging app in Japan, Line, has suffered a data breach leaking the personal information of its users, customers, and business partners. Data breach leaked 440,000 items of personal data.
Dollar Tree and Family Dollar have leaked the sensitive personal information of nearly 2 million employees via a third-party data breach of a people analytics firm.
Internal sources and documents seen by Guardian reporters indicate that advanced persistent threat (APT) hacker groups working for Russia and China have likely had sleeper malware spread throughout the UK nuclear site's IT systems since at least 2015.
A group calling itself "Cyber Av3ngers," believed to be supported by Iran's government, has declared war against Western organizations making use of Israeli technology. One of the opening salvos in this campaign appears to be against US water utilities, with at least one confirmed strike by the Iranian hackers in Pennsylvania.
An update from Okta on its October customer support security breach indicates that the damage is worse than initially expected, with all of the recent users of its Help Center service now being told that the attackers likely stole their uploaded files.
Iranian hackers Cyber Av3ngers breached a water utility in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, by targeting an Israeli-made SCADA system they consider a legitimate target.










