Data leak occurred when a sensitive document was mistakenly shared in connection to a freedom of information request, and takes place amidst a backdrop of increased tensions and fears of terrorism that have been growing since early 2023.
The US Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) has published a comprehensive analysis of the Lapsus$ hacker group’s cyber extortion activities. The report highlighted simple but effective tactics the Lapsus$ hackers used to compromise organizations and the existing security gaps enabling them.
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).
Threat actors accessed personal and protected health information from the Colorado Department of Health Care after third-party vendor IBM suffered a MOVEit data breach.
Though Microsoft is hardly alone in terms of cloud services experiencing serious security breaches, a string of Redmond mishaps appears to have prompted new security reviews by the Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB).
Under a month into the project, privacy concerns have already caused Worldcoin to be banned by some countries and targeted for regulation in others. The central issue is its collection of biometric data, as it promises "free money" in return for capturing iris scans.
Security researchers have discovered an EvilProxy phishing campaign targeting 120,000 Microsoft 365 users with a focus on business executives with access to financial assets or sensitive information.
Telegram was suspended in Iraq at the ISP level for about a week by order of the Ministry of Communications. The cited reason was "national security concerns" and the leaking of private personal data of citizens.
With fines and penalties (such as potential shutdown of company operations) looming in November of this year, some companies are opting to bail out of China rather than even attempt to comply with the slew of new data regulations.
China’s new rules for facial recognition technology require companies to protect personal information, and to demonstrate a "specific purpose" and "sufficient necessity" when collecting biometric data of this nature.
