Meta to pay $1.4 billion over unauthorized facial recognition image capture
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced a $1.4 billion settlement with Meta to “stop the company’s practice of capturing and using the personal biometric…
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Apple fixes Siri vulnerabilities that could have allowed sensitive data theft from locked device. Update now!
Apple has released security updates for many of its products in order to patch several vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to steal sensitive information…
Threat actor impersonates Google via fake ad for Authenticator
We have previously reported on the brand impersonation issue with Google ads: users who search for popular keywords are shown malicious ads that purport to…
US senators ask FTC to investigate car makers’ privacy practices
An ongoing US Senate investigation indicated that connected car makers violate consumer privacy by sharing and selling drivers’ data, including their location, on a vast…
SIEM is not storage, with Jess Dodson (Lock and Code S05E16)
This week on the Lock and Code podcast… In the world of business cybersecurity, the powerful technology known as “Security Information and Event Management” is…
Meta takes down 63,000 sextortion-related accounts on Instagram
Meta announced the take-down of 63,000 sextortion-related Instagram accounts in Nigeria alone. The action was directed against a group known as Yahoo Boys, a loosely…
Windows update may present users with a BitLocker recovery screen
Some Windows users may see a BitLocker Recovery screen after applying the Microsoft patch Tuesday updates. BitLocker is a Windows security feature that encrypts entire…
TracFone will pay $16 million to settle FCC data breach investigation
Following three separate data breaches between 2021 and 2023 which exposed the proprietary information (PI) of TracFone Wireless customers, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced…
Google admits it can’t quite quit third-party cookies
For more than a year, Google has said it would phase out the third-party tracking cookies that power much of its advertising business online, proposing…
Heritage Foundation data breach containing personal data is available online
The Heritage Foundation this month denied that it had suffered an earlier system breach and the subsequent leaking of internal data. But the organization had…
CrowdStrike update at center of Windows “Blue Screen of Death” outage
A faulty update from the cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike crashed countless Windows computers and sent them into a “Blue Screen of Death” (BSOD), grinding to a…
Number of data breach victims goes up 1,000%
Nope, that headline’s not a typo. Over one thousand percent. The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) tracked 1,041,312,601 data breach victims in Q2 2024, an…