With lessons learned from 2016 U.S. presidential election, U.S. government officials are taking no chances in upcoming election security by pushing stricter measures to secure online information from cyber attacks.
Australian electronic prescriptions provider MediSecure has suffered a large-scale ransomware attack that exposed customers’ sensitive information.
Some security experts worry that open source Twitter code would thus not be tremendously helpful in revealing how the system selects content, but would create avenues of attack for threat actors that could now scrutinize its internal workings.
In a Fox News interview with Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk revealed that all unencrypted Twitter data was regularly subject to government surveillance under the previous ownership.
A widespread email data leak is forwarding addresses in plain text to advertising and analytics companies when users sign up for, unsubscribe from, or click on marketing emails from online services.
As email usage expands annually, so do email-borne threats, with three-quarters of IT security leaders anticipating a severe email security incident in the next 12 months.
Iran's SIAM system has base-level access to the country's cellular networks and used not just for government surveillance, but also has functions that allow for remote manipulation of individual data collections and backdoors through encryption.
Attackers are combining DDoS attacks and "click fraud" in new email extortion scams that target publishers with websites monetized through Google AdSense program.
Generative AI models in the style of ChatGPT are being sold that promise to help create malware, write phishing emails, set up attack sites, scan for vulnerabilities, and more. The latest DarkBART and DarkBERT projects have been trained on dark web sites.
Emerging technologies including biometrics and advanced analytics are helping to revolutionize the way governments and public service agencies address data privacy and security concerns, according to a new report from Accenture.
