Adam Levin Discusses Employment Scams on CBS This Morning

Adam Levin was featured on CBS This Morning where he discussed employment scams, in which fictitious companies dupe victims into spending their own money...
Vermont law data broker

Vermont Law Shines Light on Data Brokers

A newly enacted Vermont law offers a glimpse at companies engaged in the compiling and selling of individual user data. Under H.764 (Act 171), third-party...
Tik Tok

TikTok Fined Record Amount for Collecting Children’s Data

The Federal Trade Commission fined the popular social media and video sharing service TikTok a record $5.7 million for illegally collecting the personal data...
DNS hacking

ICANN Urges Greater Domain Name Security

The infrastructure at the core of the internet is vulnerable to attack from state-sponsored hackers, its governing body warned.  The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names...
Intuit Data Breach

TurboTax Hit By Credential Stuffing Attack

An undisclosed number of TurboTax customer accounts have been compromised in a credential stuffing attack. “Based on our investigation,” a notice told affected users,...
Chinese surveillance

Unsecured Database Reveals Scope of Chinese Surveillance

According to a recent report, information from a leaked database revealed the extent to which China is tracking its citizens, particularly its Uyghur and...
Facebook in the EU and UK

“Digital Gangster” Facebook’s Faceplant in the EU and UK Markets

As Brexit looms, the UK and the EU can still agree that Facebook needs to be reined in. A report published earlier this month...
Russian election hacking

DHS De-Prioritizes Foreign Interference Ahead of 2020 Elections

A new report revealed that two federal task forces committed to securing the 2020 elections lost resources and personnel--both budgets drastically reduced by the...
facebook ftc fine

Facebook May Be Fined for Billions for Cambridge Analytica Scandal

Facebook’s long string of privacy scandals may (finally) have some meaningful repercussions by way of a multi-billion dollar fine from the Federal Trade Commission....

GAO Recommends Stiffer Penalties for Privacy Violations

The U.S. Federal Government should pass legislation protecting citizens’ privacy online, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office. The GAO study...
credential stuffing

Is Your Business at Risk From ‘Credential Stuffing’ Attacks?

Dailymotion is a Paris-based video-sharing rival of YouTube. The site gets about 300 million unique visitors a month who watch an estimated 3.5 billion videos. While that's...
Credit union phishing attempt

Phishing Campaign Hits Credit Unions

A phishing campaign targeting credit unions and other financial institutions recently found its way into the email inboxes of anti-money laundering officers. Credit unions and...
APT10

China-Linked APT10 Attacks US, Western Companies

The Chinese government-linked hacking group APT10 is continuing its campaign against US and European businesses with increasingly sophisticated tactics and strategies, warn officials from...
Data Breach

Small Breaches Can Make Big News: How to Protect Your Organization

A recent leak compromised the personal data of all 4,557 active students at the California State Polytechnic University Science School. This was not a...
Privacy Act

North Carolina Data Privacy Law Proposed

North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein and Representative Jason Saine have re-introduced legislation to protect residents of the state against data breaches and identity...

Adam Levin Shares How to Spot a Twitter Bot on AM...

Adam Levin was featured on AM Joy with Joy Reid where he shared tips on how to identify the activities of bots on Twitter....
Apple Privacy

Can Apple Beat Back the Competition with Privacy?

"What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone." That was the message Apple emblazoned in huge letters on the flank of Springhill Suites Marriot...
Friendly Fraud on Facebook

Facebook Knowingly Charged Children, Committed “Friendly Fraud”

Facebook knowingly misled children into spending money to play games on its ad platform, according to a set of unsealed court documents reported by...
Facebook Research

Facebook App Paid Users for Unfettered Access to their Personal Data

Facebook released an app that paid users for full access to their data. The Facebook Research app functioned as a VPN (virtual private network) that...
Shodan

Shodan: Cybersecurity Tool or Hacker’s Yellow Pages?

The recent data leak of the Oklahoma Security Commission that compromised 17 years’ worth of FBI investigations, the NGO leak of 4 million internship...