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.
Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) has suffered a massive data breach leaking sensitive personal information of current and former students and educators spanning over a decade.
Since the GDPR went into effect in 2018, Meta has done nearly everything possible to claim legitimate interest to avoid user consent for collecting personal information for targeted ads. The company appears to have finally reached the end of its rope in this area, though a recently announced changeover to a consent basis.
Massive UK Electoral Commission data breach leaked voter data of 40 million individuals who registered to vote between 2014 and 2022. The electoral body said it first detected suspicious activity on its network in October 2022 and discovered that threat actors had accessed the systems 14 months prior.
Official sources say that Chinese hackers combed Japan's military networks over an extended period between 2020 and 2021 in search of military plans, documentation of capabilities, and assessments of vulnerabilities.
Zoom's plan for AI data collection is apparently to scrape it from internal customer activity. The March TOS update changed the platform terms to announce that Zoom reserved the right to use platform video, audio and chat content to train AI models.
Under the new terms of the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) will be examining a broad range of data collected by car manufacturers, including what the vehicle cameras capture and what is passing through their apps.
