U.S. prosecutors say that four members of the People’s Liberation Army were involved in the hacking, which exposed the sensitive data of more than 147 million people.
- By Haley Samsel
- Feb 12, 2020
Ransomware attacks hit at least over 200,000 organizations last year, and the average ransom demanded rose dramatically at the end of 2019.
- By Haley Samsel
- Feb 11, 2020
Open-source software isn’t a completely chaotic and breached wasteland of vulnerabilities. It’s a global effort to make the development lifecycle faster.
- By Gilad David Maayan
- Feb 10, 2020
McAfee’s survey of 13 states considered “critical” in the presidential election found that 83 percent lacked .GOV validation, which verifies websites as being run by official local governments.
- By Haley Samsel
- Feb 05, 2020
For organizations that wish to monitor their premises, video surveillance is most often the first solution they think of.
- By Chris Wildfoerster
- Feb 01, 2020
Thanks to an Illinois privacy law, eligible users will soon be able to apply for payments from Facebook for using facial scans without permission.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jan 31, 2020
Insurers have made “dramatic” increases in premiums for cyber-insurance and are considering lowering the ransom amounts they will pay.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jan 24, 2020
Party leaders say they have taken steps to protect cybersecurity and that there will be paper records to verify each vote for the final results.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jan 22, 2020
Lawmakers are trying to deter would-be hackers from carrying out cyber attacks that have paralyzed companies, hospital systems and local governments, including Baltimore’s city government.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jan 21, 2020
Because the technique involves impersonating a trusted employee, the hacking method has the potential to be unusually effective.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jan 17, 2020
The data privacy bill would give consumers the right to access and delete data collected about them, while the facial recognition legislation would regulate government use of the software.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jan 15, 2020
The bipartisan measure would allow parents to delete information collected by companies about their kids and raise the age of parental consent protection from 13 to 16.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jan 13, 2020
The advisory warned businesses about cyber attacks featuring cryptocurrency sites and spam campaigns impersonating government agencies.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jan 08, 2020
The company has faced complaints, and a lawsuit, from customers that hackers were able to take over accounts and speak to children through the doorbell camera’s speaker.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jan 07, 2020
Can we imagine a new decade in which we protect our privacy and security while still maintaining innovation and freedom online?
- By Tyler Reguly
- Dec 30, 2019
New findings by security firm Pen Test Partners reveal that 47 million devices worldwide could be exposed and tracked thanks to a strikingly insecure cloud platform.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 20, 2019
As shoppers try to find deals in time to put presents under the tree, phishing campaigns are making it more difficult for consumers to tell if a website is naughty or nice.
- By Tyler Reguly
- Dec 18, 2019
The travel companies were fined for lax data security practices that potentially led to a breach affecting 880,000 payment cards globally.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 17, 2019
The cyberattack caused the city to completely shut down its network for several days, but did not affect emergency services.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 16, 2019
The ongoing debate over Apple and Facebook’s decision to not build “backdoors” for law enforcement to obtain encrypted messages continued to rage during a Senate hearing on Tuesday.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 12, 2019