A study by Mozilla Foundation has reportedly revealed "significant discrepancies" in data safety labels on the Google Play Store. Almost 80% of the 40 apps tested, including Twitter, TikTok, and Facebook, offer inaccurate and misleading details about how user data is shared. The report
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Reddit is under pressure from film studios to reveal the identities of nine users who discussed piracy to assist in an ongoing lawsuit against the cable Internet provider RCN. It is alleged that these users spoke about RCN’s “lax” policy in regards to terminating repeat copyright
Hackers have gained and released data center login credentials of more than 2,000 businesses, including Fortune 500 companies like Walmart, Apple, and Amazon. This allowed hackers to masquerade as authorized users on the customer support sites for these data centers. According to the report from
GoDaddy, a domain registrar and web hosting service with over 20 million customers, disclosed last Friday that an unknown group of cybercriminals has gained access to customer accounts three times in the last three years. In an SEC filing, GoDaddy said, "These incidents are part of a multi-year
The City of Oakland, California, has declared a state of emergency after a ransomware attack hit its computer systems. The attack was discovered on February 8, but the emergency was only brought into effect several days after the cyberattack was confirmed. The local government has not revealed the
Clop, a ransomware group with ties to Russia, has asserted it was behind recent attacks that exploited a zero-day flaw in the GoAnywhere MFT secure file transfer tool. One of the biggest victims was Community Health Systems (CHS), one of the largest healthcare providers in the US. They confirmed
Several complaints have been made against Twitter in Europe, leading to investigations being carried out by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) regarding Twitter’s data retention. The ICO and DPC are working with Twitter to investigate
The notorious hacktivist group Killnet, known for its close ties with the Russian government, has launched a cyber offensive against the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). A full-blown distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack disrupted several NATO communication channels that were being
In one of the most significant medical data breaches in California’s recent history, Heritage Provider Network (HPN) was targeted by a ransomware attack, exposing the sensitive data of more than 3 million patients. Among the largest private healthcare networks in the United States, HPN confirmed
Instances of “malvertising” have spiked significantly over the last few months, to the point where downloading software via Google poses a high risk. Cybercriminals have been using Google Ads to push fake download pages for popular software to the top of Google search results. The alarm was