Facebook has been fined £500,000 by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal that exposed data of 87 million users. The announcement was made by the UK's data protection regulator, Information Commissioner...
The Japanese government ordered Facebook to improve the protection of users' personal information following the recent data breaches that exposed data from millions of people. At the end of September, Facebook admitted that attackers exploited a vulnerability...
The Supreme Court of the US ruled that police must obtain a search warrant before obtaining mobile location data from mobile carriers and similar services. The Supreme Court of the United States ruled this week that law enforcement must obtain a search...
The Justice Department announced an effort to disrupt the VPNFilter botnet of hundreds of thousands of infected home and office (SOHO) routers and other networked devices under the control of a Russia-linked APT group. Yesterday Talos and other security...
Home Wi-Fi networks in the UK using Super Router provided by TalkTalk ISP are affected by a vulnerability that exposes them to cyber attacks. Security researchers at software house IndigoFuzz have discovered a security flaw in the implementation of the WPS feature...
Uber agrees to a new settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over the massive 2016 data breach, the authorities could assign civil penalties against the company if it will fail to share incident data with FTC. Uber agrees to a new settlement with...
Airbnb China announced that it will share user data belonging to Chinese users with the Government to comply with national laws and regulations. Airbnb announced that it will share user data belonging to Chinese users with the Government. The company...
The US Department of State wants to ask visa applicants to provide details on the social media accounts they've managed in the past five years. The US Government wants to make it mandatory for all foreigners (immigrant /non-immigrant) to provide social...
A Supreme Court in Russia ruled Telegram must provide the FSB with encryption keys to access users' messaging data to avoid being blocked. Bad news for Telegram, a Supreme Court in Russia ruled the company must provide the FSB with encryption keys...
The UE issued new recommendations to tackle illegal content online, it asked internet companies to promptly remove terror content from their platforms within an hour from notification. On Thursday, the UE issued new recommendations to internet companies...