Data Protection
More than 106 million travellers to Thailand had their personal details exposed online in August, a cybersecurity research company that discovered the data said...
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Privacy & Compliance
The Meta-owned communications app is filing a federal court contempt order against NSO.
Privacy
Claims that “Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history” face scrutiny as researchers analyze LinkedIn’s browser extension probing
Privacy & Compliance
Britain’s data privacy watchdog slapped online forum Reddit on Tuesday with a fine worth nearly $20 million for failures involving children’s personal information.
Government
Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: vulnerabilities at 277 water systems, DoD employee acting as money mule, 200 airports exposed...
Application Security
Google this week announced plans to support the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF) to boost the security of open source projects.
Data Protection
Cybercrime
Hackers stole the personal data of around 1.4 million people who took Covid-19 tests in the Paris region in the middle of 2020, hospital...
Compliance
Zoom this week revealed that its users will be getting the option to encrypt their one-on-one phone calls courtesy of end-to-end encryption (E2EE) being...
Audits
Israel’s foreign minister on Wednesday played down criticism of the country’s regulation of the cyberespionage firm NSO Group but vowed to step up efforts...
Compliance
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) this week announced that it has banned stalkerware app maker SpyFone and its CEO, Scott Zuckerman, from the...
Privacy & Compliance
Ireland on Thursday imposed a 225-million-euro fine on Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp for breaching EU data privacy laws after European regulators demanded the penalty...
Data Protection
UpGuard security researchers have identified tens of Microsoft Power Apps portals that exposed millions of records due to being misconfigured.
Compliance
Class action lawsuits have been filed against T-Mobile over the recently disclosed data breach that has been confirmed to impact more than 50 million...
Data Protection
JPMorgan Chase Bank last week sent out notification letters to inform customers that their personal information might have been inadvertently exposed to other customers.
Data Protection
Security researcher Bob Diachenko claims to have discovered an unprotected Elasticsearch database containing 1.9 million records related to what appeared to be a terrorist...
Privacy
Facebook has updated the end-to-end encryption features in Messenger to provide users with more secure voice and video calling capabilities.
Privacy & Compliance
Online privacy campaigners on Tuesday said they had filed hundreds of complaints against websites and platforms in Europe over violations of rules on cookies,...
Data Protection
Mozilla on Tuesday released Firefox 91, a version of the web browser that brings enhanced cookie clearing, HTTPS by default in private browsing mode,...
Compliance
Apple's announcement that it would scan encrypted messages for evidence of child sexual abuse has revived debate on online encryption and privacy, raising fears...
Audits
A bipartisan report released this week by the United States Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee shows that key government agencies have made...
Compliance
Amazon was fined 746 million euros ($880 million) by Luxembourg authorities over allegations it flouted the EU's data protection rules, the online retail giant...
Compliance
Zoom, the videoconferencing firm, has agreed to settle a class-action US privacy lawsuit for $85 million, it said Sunday.The suit charged that Zoom's sharing...
Cybersecurity Funding
BlackCloak, a company that provides cyber protection services for corporate executives and high-profile individuals, on Thursday announced that it has raised $11 million in...
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