Compliance
Theta Lake, a company that specializes in compliance and security solutions for collaboration platforms, on Wednesday announced raising $50 million in a Series B...
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Data Protection
A New Mexico jury has found Facebook liable for deceiving users about privacy protections on the platform.
Privacy & Compliance
Google has been fined 403 million euros ($463 million) for breaching the European Union’s strict privacy rules because it mishandled users’ location data.
Privacy & Compliance
TikTok will pay $300 million immediately and another $100 million after an order vacates an earlier consent decree against its predecessor company, Musical.ly.
Privacy & Compliance
The Meta-owned communications app is filing a federal court contempt order against NSO.
Compliance
Trustero, a Palo Alto, California-based startup offering Compliance-as-a-Service (CaaS) for enterprises, has emerged from stealth mode with $8 million in seed funding.The investment round...
Application Security
A cybersecurity startup is warning of a major, unattended weak link in the software supply chain: the vexing problem of valuable corporate secrets --...
Audits
Italy's data privacy watchdog said Friday it was investigating the "potential risks" that Russian antivirus software Kaspersky could be used to launch cyberattacks.
Application Security
The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has released security updates to fix multiple high-severity vulnerabilities in the widely deployed Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) server...
Cyber Insurance
Security and networking platform start-up Todyl on Thursday announced the closing of a $28 million Series A funding round. The new investment round was led...
Application Security
Software supply chain security fears escalated again this week with the discovery of what’s being described as "deliberate sabotage" of code in the open-source...
Privacy & Compliance
Ireland’s privacy watchdog has fined Facebook’s parent company, Meta, 17 million euros, or about $19 million, for violating Europe’s privacy law.
Compliance
Italy's data privacy watchdog on Wednesday fined US-based firm Clearview AI 20 million euros (almost $22 million) over its controversial facial recognition software.
Application Security
German software maker SAP this week announced the release of 12 new and four updated security notes as part of its March 2022 Patch...
Application Security
BastionZero, a provider of remote access to backend infrastructure, has raised $6 million in seed investment. The funding round was led by Dell Technologies...
Application Security
Microsoft this week announced the general availability of Defender for Business, an endpoint security solution aimed small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).
Audits
Compliance solutions provider anecdotes this week announced that it has raised $25 million in Series A funding, which brings the total investment in the...
Cybercrime
Warnings to use disposable “burner” phones and laptops. Privacy-protecting software. Concerns about a security flaw in an official Games smartphone app.
Data Protection
Google this week announced Privacy Sandbox on Android, a new initiative expected to lead to more private advertising solutions for its mobile users.The new...
Privacy
Cambodia is delaying an internet gateway that had raised concerns around privacy and free speech, halting its planned mid-week implementation due to Covid-19 related...
Compliance
Facebook-parent Meta has agreed to pay $90 million to settle a 10-year-old lawsuit accusing it of tracking users online even after they logged off...
Application Security
Technology giant Google is offering bigger cash awards for hackers reporting critical security flaws affecting the Linux Kernel, GKE, Kubernetes, and kCTF.
Compliance
Google once used the slogan "don't be evil" to distinguish itself from its competitors, but now a growing number of pro-privacy startups are rallying...
Application Security
A team of Israeli entrepreneurs with roots in the application security ecosystem is taking a stab at software supply chain security with big backing...
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