Infosecurity News

  1. UN Wants US Probe into Bezos-Saudi Phone Hack

    Amazon boss was allegedly sent spyware by crown prince

  2. US Journalist Denounced for Alleged Involvement with Brazilian Criminal Organization

    Brazilian prosecutors accuse US journalist Glenn Greenwald of involvement with a phone-hacking gang

  3. Fake Smart Factory Captures Real Cyber-threats

    Cyber-criminals flock to fake industrial company honeypot

  4. Facebook Crime Rises 19% as UK Tries to Police Social Media

    Rise in UK Facebook-linked crime as government introduces stricter social media code of conduct

  5. Apple Dropped iCloud Encryption Plans After FBI Complaint: Report

    Move would have severely hampered investigations

  6. Microsoft Exposes 250 Million Call Center Records in Privacy Snafu

    Data leak was the result of misconfigured Elasticsearch databases

  7. Campaigners Threaten ICO with Legal Action for AdTech Failings

    Regulator has yet to punish industry for illegal real-time bidding practices

  8. KnowBe4 Donates $250,000 to Stetson University College of Law

    Donation will provide employee security awareness training, create scholarships and help to develop the university’s cybersecurity program

  9. Surge in Ships Seeking Cybersecurity Classification

    Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore reports rise in applicants for "Cyber Managed" notation

  10. US Cybersecurity Firm Founder Admits Funding DDoS Attacks

    Founder of BackConnect Security paid a DDoS-for-hire service to launch cyber-attacks

  11. Scottish Police Deploy Tech That Extracts Data from Locked Smartphones

    Police Scotland is using Cellebrite machines to retrieve data from locked devices

  12. Hong Kong Looks to GDPR as it Strengthens Privacy Laws

    China SAR looks for inspiration following Cathay Pacific breach

  13. UK Gov Database Leak Exposes 28 Million Children

    Betting firms were reportedly allowed access to trove

  14. Zero-Day IE Bug is Being Exploited in the Wild

    CISA and Microsoft sound the alarm but no patch as yet

  15. US Could Appoint a Cybersecurity Leader for Each State

    Senate considers bill to create state cybersecurity leaders

  16. Possessing Ransomware Could Become Illegal in Maryland

    Maryland residents could be jailed and fined $10K for possessing ransomware

  17. Mitsubishi Electric Discloses Information Leak

    Electronics manufacturer Mitsubishi waits six months to declare breach

  18. €114m in Fines Imposed by Euro Authorities Under GDPR

    160,000 data breach notifications reported across 28 European Union Member States

  19. Travelex Begins Reboot as VPN Bug Persists

    Thousands of organizations may be exposed to same vulnerability

  20. London Councils Lose Nearly 1300 Devices Over Three Years

    Growing threat to public sector data as mobile working increases risk

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