Equifax data breach could have been “entirely preventable”, says House oversight and government reform...
Update: On July 22, 2019, Equifax announced a global settlement including up to $425 million to help people affected by the data breach.
Two days...
Marriott’s Starwood guest database faces a massive data breach affecting 500 million user data
Last week, a popular Hospitality company, Marriott International, unveiled details about a massive data breach, which exposed the personal and financial information of its...
Google bypassed its own security and privacy teams for Project Dragonfly reveals Intercept
Google’s Project Dragonfly has faced significant criticism and scrutiny from both the public and Google employees. In a major report yesterday, the Intercept revealed...
Malicious code in npm ‘event-stream’ package targets a bitcoin wallet and causes 8 million...
Last week Ayrton Sparling, a Computer Science major at CSUF, California disclosed that the popular npm package, event-stream, contains a malicious package named flatmap-stream. He disclosed the issue...
Social media platforms, Twitter and Gab.com, accused of facilitating recent domestic terrorism in the...
Updated on 30th Oct 2018: Following PayPal, two additional platforms, Stripe and Joyent have suspended Gab accounts from their respective platforms.
Social media platforms Twitter...
Sir Tim Berners-Lee on digital ethics and socio-technical systems at ICDPPC 2018
At the ongoing 40th ICDPPC, International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners conference, Sir Tim Berners-Lee spoke on ethics and the Internet. The...
How to stop hackers from messing with your home network (IoT)
This week, NCCIC, in collaboration with cybersecurity authorities of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States released a joint ‘Activity...
5 nation joint Activity Alert Report finds most threat actors use publicly available tools...
NCCIC, in collaboration with cybersecurity authorities of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States has released a joint ‘Activity Alert...
Mozilla announces $3.5 million award for ‘Responsible Computer Science Challenge’ to encourage teaching ethical...
Mozilla, along with Omidyar Network, Schmidt Futures, and Craig Newmark Philanthropies, has launched an initiative for professors, graduate students, and teaching assistants at U.S....
Bloomberg’s Big Hack Exposé says China had microchips on servers for covert surveillance of...
According to an in-depth report by Bloomberg yesterday, Chinese spies secretly inserted microchips within servers at Apple, Amazon, the US Department of Defense, the...
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