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An individual is offering to sell the data of more than 400 million Twitter users, just as Ireland’s data protection watchdog has announced an...
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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.
Privacy
Facebook parent Meta has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a long-running lawsuit that accused the social network of allowing third parties, including...
Privacy
Employees of Chinese tech giant ByteDance improperly accessed data from social media platform TikTok to track journalists in a bid to identify the source...
Privacy
Many in the United States see TikTok, the highly popular video-sharing app owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, as a threat to national security.The following is...
Compliance
France's privacy watchdog said Thursday it has fined US tech giant Microsoft 60 million euros ($64 million) for foisting advertising cookies on users.
Compliance
The European Union moved closer to a clinching a revamped deal over transatlantic data transfers aimed at resolving concerns about U.S. spying with a...
Privacy
Congress is considering a US federal privacy law. It’s been brewing for the last ten years and is getting closer. On July 20, 2022,...
Compliance
Google has to delete search results about people in Europe if they can prove that the information is clearly wrong, the European Union’s top...
Cloud Security
Apple has scrapped plans to ship a controversial child pornography protection tool for iCloud Photos, a concession to privacy rights advocates who warned it...
Compliance
TikTok was hit Wednesday with a pair of lawsuits from the US state of Indiana, which accused it of making false claims about the...
Audits
Meta is expected to face another large fine after Europe's data watchdog on Tuesday imposed binding decisions concerning the treatment of personal data by...
Privacy
Apple presents itself as a white knight on the subject of privacy, but critics say its own advertising ambitions are built on anti-competitive practices.
Application Security
Balance Theory, a seed-stage startup working on technology to help security teams collaborate and manage data flows securely, has closed a $3 million funding...
Privacy
Report says Census Bureau failed to stop simulated cyberattacks conducted under an operation to test for vulnerabilities
Application Security
Vulnerability researchers at Google Project Zero are calling attention to the ongoing “patch-gap” problem in the Android ecosystem, warning that downstream vendors continue to...
Privacy
Ireland's data regulator on Monday slapped Facebook owner Meta with a 265-million-euro ($275-million) fine after details of more than half a billion users were...
Compliance
Attorneys general in 33 US states are urging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to take into consideration consumer risks as it looks into creating...
Application Security
The U.S. government on Wednesday issued a blunt recommendation for organizations running VMWare Horizon servers: Initiate threat-hunting activities to find and expel Iranian APT...
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As AI accelerates vulnerability discovery and exploitation, so-called virtual patching still comes down to defense-in-depth and strong application security fundamentals.
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(Steve Durbin)
Agentic remediation is not an act of faith. We are talking about fixing known problems, not judgment calls about unfamiliar risk.
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Point-in-time audits and sampled assessments offer only snapshots; continuous control monitoring provides evidence that security controls are working today.
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(Matt Honea)