With a total of €2.92 billion levied throughout the bloc in 2022, GDPR fines are up in spite of a small drop in the overall data breach count as the bloc eyes stronger regulation for AI.
DNA testing firm said the data breach exposed personal and financial data of 2.1 million people, and hackers removed some files from the national genetic testing organization system database.
Recent survey of 2,000 international consumers suggests that companies unify and modernize identity authentication processes to avoid a mass exodus of customers.
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.
Private Chinese hackers were employed not just for foreign hacking, but also as a part of the government's domestic surveillance program. The document leak indicates that i-Soon may have also hacked domestic targets for the purpose of intelligence-gathering.
A security vulnerability that was initially documented as a Chrome bug is likely part of the attack chain employed by NSO Group's Pegasus spyware, and has been revised as a critical libwebp flaw in a new CVE ID filed by Google.
The DoD has published a strategy and roadmap directing all the department's agencies to migrate to zero trust architecture by 2027. Strategy identified 90 target capabilities and 62 capabilities to achieve “more advanced zero trust.”
Amazon's new sleep tracking technology proposes to cast an "electromagnetic bubble" over customers. Critics have raised multiple concerns, including exactly what Amazon intends to do with the data it collects.
A new Thailand cybersecurity law went into effect last week, and is controversial more for what it doesn't specify than what it does. As it is worded, it appears to give the Thai government very broad powers to monitor internet use, censor content and even seize property without court orders.
Recent DOGE actions in U.S. Treasury computer systems have raised particular privacy concerns and triggered lawsuits. Some government officials and legal experts are claiming that this access to federal data breaches the Privacy Act of 1974 among other regulations.
