The FTC’s new COPPA amendments would bolster children's privacy by further restricting how companies can collect, use and monetize the data of underage users, shifting a greater deal of responsibility for privacy online to service providers.
Security researchers have discovered a three-decade-old DICOM vulnerability that exposed millions of patient health records to unauthorized access and manipulation.
Australian-based American defense contractor Austal USA has confirmed a cyber attack after the Hunters International ransomware group listed the company and shared samples of the stolen data as proof. Austal USA undertakes major U.S. Navy shipbuilding programs.
A ChatGPT vulnerability documented in a new report causes training data, some containing personal information, to randomly appear when one tells the chatbot to repeat a particular word.
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.
