X gets $140 million EU fine for breaching content rules but TikTok settles

Elon Musk’s social media company X was fined 120 million euros ($140 million) by EU tech regulators on Friday for breaching online content rules, the first sanction under landmark legislation that once again drew criticism from the U.S. government. While Read More …

Trump’s national security strategy wants spy agencies to watch world supply chains

President Donald Trump’s national security strategy tasks the U.S. intelligence community with monitoring global supply chains as part of a sweeping goal to decouple the nation’s economy from foreign adversaries and advance American economic interests. The demands listed in the Read More …

Fintech firm Marquis alerts dozens of US banks and credit unions of a data breach after ransomware attack

Fintech company Marquis is notifying dozens of U.S. banks and credit unions that they had customer data stolen in a cyberattack earlier this year. Details of the cyberattack emerged this week after Marquis filed data breach notices with several U.S. Read More …

FTC cracks down on education tech company after massive student data breach

The Federal Trade Commission took action against Illuminate Education on December 1, 2025, after the Wisconsin-based company suffered a massive data breach that exposed personal information of more than 10 million students. In late December 2021, a hacker used login Read More …

Bug in jury systems used by several US states exposed sensitive personal data

Several public websites designed to allow courts across the United States and Canada to manage the personal information of potential jurors had a simple security flaw that easily exposed their sensitive data, including names and home addresses, TechCrunch has exclusively Read More …

US banks scramble to assess data theft after hackers breach financial tech firm

Several U.S. banking giants and mortgage lenders are reportedly scrambling to assess how much of their customers’ data was stolen during a cyberattack on a New York financial technology company earlier this month. SitusAMC, which provides technology for over a Read More …

US, UK, and Australia sanction Russian ‘bulletproof’ web host used in ransomware attacks

The governments of the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia have sanctioned a Russian “bulletproof” web hosting company and several of its related firms for allegedly being used to launch ransomware attacks against U.S. victims and critical infrastructure. In a Read More …

DoorDash says personal information of customers, dashers stolen in data breach

DoorDash confirmed a data breach that exposed the names, email addresses, phone numbers and physical addresses of some of its users, including customers, dashers and merchants. In a Help Center article published Nov. 13, DoorDash said that although hackers stole Read More …

Microsoft says Azure was hit with a massive DDoS attack launched from over 500,000 IP addresses

Microsoft has said it successfully mitigated, “the largest DDoS attack ever observed in the cloud” after cybercriminals running the Aisuru botnet targeted a single endpoint, located in Australia. The attack was a sight to behold: more than 500,000 source IPs, Read More …