The United States has no national ID - but mobile driver's licenses could offer a secure, user-centric and privacy-enhancing alternative for online identity verification and help organizations overcome deficiencies in digital identity infrastructure, said Jeremy Grant, managing director at Venable
The American Hospital Association is warning of increasingly sophisticated social engineering scams targeting hospital IT help desks with schemes involving the stolen credentials of revenue cycle and other finance employees to commit payment fraud against the institutions.
This week, Microsoft expanded plans to store EU citizens' data locally, shipping-themed phishing spam is a threat, the British Library overcame a ransomware setback, the FBI warned of Androxgh0st malware, Remcos RAT targeted South Korea, and eBay was fined $3 million for a cyberstalking campaign.
This week, the U.S. SEC assessed its X account hack, attackers stole $3.3M from Socket, Do Kwon got a new trial date, Alex Mashinsky sought to dismiss charges, Google Play Store removed crypto apps for India users, IRS clarified crypto asset reporting and South Korea mulled crypto mixer legislation.
Ireland - home to the European headquarters of a throng of multinational tech companies - is responsible for the greatest amount of aggregate data protection fines - 2.9 billion euros - since the European Union General Data Protection Regulation went into effect.
A Russian domestic intelligence agency hacking group known for long-lasting logon credential phishing campaigns against Western targets is now deploying malware embedded into PDFs, say security researchers from Google. "Coldriver" is using a family of backdoors Google dubs Spica.
A federal judge said he is inclined to let proceed a putative class action lawsuit against Meta over its gathering of data from medical center patient portals through a web activity tracking tool. U.S. District Judge William Orrick for the District of Northern California heard arguments.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is warning critical infrastructure owners and operators about the dangers associated with the increasing reliance on Chinese unmanned aircraft systems, warning their use in CI sectors "risks exposing sensitive information to PRC authorities."
OpenAI said it is taking steps to prevent use of its models in online influence operations throughout the 2024 election season, amid growing concerns about election security and increasing fears that political deepfakes and AI-generated election misinformation could significantly disrupt democracy.
IT infrastructure mainstays including NetScaler, Atlassian and VMware on Tuesday released fixes for vulnerabilities including some allowing malicious takeover of appliances. NetScaler warned customers Tuesday of two zero-day vulnerabilities that researchers say are being exploited in the wild.
Google released an urgent fix for the first zero-day vulnerability of the year in its Chrome web browser, warning the bug is under active exploitation. Google blamed an out-of-bounds memory access flaw in its V8 JavaScript rendering engine. It also affects Microsoft Edge browser.
It's last call for Drizly, the alcohol delivery service Uber bought for $1.1 billion in 2021. Whether or not Drizly's past cybersecurity missteps - leading to a two-decade consent agreement with regulators - played any part in its being retired by Uber remains unclear.
The British data regulator is set to analyze the privacy implications of processing scraped data used for training generative artificial intelligence algorithms. The Information Commissioner's Office is soliciting comments from AI developers, legal experts and other industry stakeholders.
Mimecast, the cloud security firm specializing in email and cyber resilience, has appointed a new CEO after co-founder Peter Bauer served in the chief executive role since the company's inception in 2003. The leadership transition comes less than two years after the company went private.
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