Facebook will pay a 265 million euro fine to the Irish data protection authority to resolve a 2021 incident when the scrapped data of 533 million users appeared online. The data contained names, phone numbers and birth dates. Facebook says it takes active measures against data scrapping.
An Indiana healthcare network, Community Health Network, is the latest medical entity to classify its use of online tracking code as a data breach reportable to federal regulators. It said the unauthorized access/disclosure breach affected 1.5 million individuals.
In the next three years, CISOs face daunting challenges, including rapidly changing threat vectors, new APT attacks and the implementation of new defensive solutions, says Anuprita Daga, chief information security officer and chief data protection officer at Yes Bank.
The United Kingdom is the newest front in the long-fought conflict over end-to-end encryption, as a slew of civil society groups urge the prime minister not to back legislation empowering regulators to force online intermediaries into providing decrypted messages.
What does the latest version of India's data protection bill mean for CISOs, and what impact does it have on security practitioners? Khushbu Jain, advocate, of the Supreme Court of India, shares some of the fine print in the draft legislation and discusses some changes that CISOs may need to make.
Staffers reacted with incredulity after a cyber incident at a Greater Toronto school district kept systems offline and forced teachers to take attendance manually. Online learning and student Chromebooks were not working at Durham District School Board, which serves more than 74,000 students.
Information amassed on 5.4 million Twitter users by an attacker who abused one of the social network's APIs has been dumped online for free. While Twitter confirmed that breach, a researcher suggests other attackers also abused the feature to amass information for millions of other users.
A multitude of state privacy laws taking effect in 2023 has forced organizations to revamp their compliance programs to incorporate the disparate requirements, says Lisa Sotto. Companies across every industry face a threat environment that's more active and malicious than ever before.
Cyber resilience extends beyond cyberattacks and encompasses the convergence of security and disaster recovery and takes into account other factors such as supply chain disruption, attacks on critical infrastructure, epidemics, market fluctuations, power outages, and natural disasters.
In the latest weekly update, Information Security Media Group Editors discuss current cybersecurity and privacy issues, including advice on strengthening off-hours defenses during the holiday season, emerging cybercrime trends in 2022, and Palo Alto's first big M&A since early 2021.
India's current Data Protection draft bill is a sea change from its earlier version. What works in the new bill and what does not work? Three experts share their views on the expected practical implementation of some of the requirements of the bill.
India’s premier healthcare institute is reeling from the after-effects of a ransomware attack, the hospital said in a statement. All patient care services, the admission, discharge and transfer of patients will be conducted manually until the server is restored, in accordance with AIIMS’ Standard Operating...
Even as the world wakes up to headlines of hackers stealing billions in cryptocurrency, countries such as India are mulling a state-run Central Bank Digital Currency for better security and stability. Dr. Dutta of IDBI Bank breaks down what works, what doesn't and what we can expect from CBDCs.
Cybersecurity experts warn that large healthcare and public sector organizations are continuing to get hit by "big-game hunting" attackers wielding Lorenz ransomware. Among the group's known victims are Wolfe Eye Clinic in Iowa and Salud Family Health of Colorado.
Software life cycle management has always been part of the development team, but organizations are now looking to extend the process beyond the development team to manage the entire supply chain, says Nahas Mohammed, regional sales director at GitHub India.
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