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The chief executive of outsourcing firm Capita is to step down as the company reels from a cyber-attack that could result in a hefty fine from the UK’s information and privacy regulator. Capita said Jon Lewis would step down by Read More …
The Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the National Security Agency (NSA) are releasing a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA), Preventing Web Application Access Control Abuse, to warn vendors, designers, developers, Read More …
A phone surveillance app called Spyhide is stealthily collecting private phone data from tens of thousands of Android devices around the world, new data shows. Spyhide is a widely used stalkerware (or spouseware) app that is planted on a victim’s Read More …
Apple says it will remove services such as FaceTime and iMessage from the UK rather than weaken security if new proposals are made law and acted upon. The government is seeking to update the Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) 2016. It Read More …
The Biden administration struck its latest blow against foreign spyware makers on Tuesday, placing two Europe-based companies on its list that restricts U.S. companies’ business dealings with them. Greece-based Intellexa and the Hungarian company Cytrox are now on the Commerce Read More …
Many businesses don’t know if they have suffered a data breach, and probably wouldn’t be able to spot such an event at all, due to the ever-expanding threat landscape, and notification fatigue among IT staff, new research has claimed. A Read More …
Real-time chat and video services available within telemedicine, finance, and smart IoT device applications used by millions of people, rely on the popular QuickBlox framework. QuickBlox supplies mobile and web application developers with a SDK and APIs to deliver not Read More …
The European Commission has announced a pact with the US to allow easier legal transfer of personal data across the Atlantic. Data privacy activists vowed to challenge the agreement in court. President Joe Biden and EU officials welcomed the deal, Read More …
Data on roughly 11 million HCA Healthcare patients in 20 states including Florida, was stolen and recently posted on an online forum, the hospital chain reported on Sunday. According to the company, an unauthorized party gained access to 27 million Read More …
Since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Telegram has gained an outsize influence on one of the world’s most watched conflicts. “Telegram is fantastic for many, many reasons and for the fact that we’ve managed to see what is Read More …