Honda data leak

Unsecured Honda Database Leaks 40GB of Data

An unsecured database containing 40 gigabytes of data belonging to the Honda Motor Company was discovered recently. The data contained employee information, including names, email...
Russian election interference

Bipartisan Senate Support Reveals Russian Election Interference

A report from the Senate Intelligence Committee released last week concluded that the Russian government extensively interfered in U.S. elections from 2014 to at...
Content Streaming and Piracy

The Content Streaming Gold Rush is a Hacker’s El Dorado

Hard to imagine, but appointment television hasn't been a real thing for more than a decade now. First, we recorded. Now, we stream. After transforming...
Siri eavesdropping

Apple’s Siri Eavesdrops on Customers

Consumer audio recorded by Apple’s Siri platform has been shared with external contractors. A whistleblower working as a contractor revealed that the company’s digital voice...

Capital One Breach Hits 100 Million Customers

A software engineer in Seattle was able to hack into the records of a total of 100 million Capital One customers. According to reports, Paige...
Cybersecurity

Why Privacy Is More Expensive Than Google Would Have You Know

The whole "Privacy is dead/Long live privacy" jam is alive and well, and increasingly consumers know whodunit. A quick look at recent stock values of Google,...
NSA Cybersecurity Directorate

NSA Announces New Cybersecurity Directorate

The U.S. National Security Agency announced the formation of a new Cybersecurity Directorate earlier this week. Effective October 1, the directorate’a mission is will be...
Facebook

Facebook Had a Bad News Day, Great Q2 Earnings

If ever the shrug wemoji belonged in a blog post, today is the day. The tech giant reached a $5 billion settlement for misrepresenting...
Equifax settlement

Equifax Comes to $700 Million Settlement for Data Breach

Equifax has reached a settlement for the 2017 data breach that exposed the Social Security numbers and personal information of nearly 150 million people. The...
Kazakh intercepting traffic

Kazakhstan Government Intercepting All Secured Internet Traffic

The Kazakhstan government is intercepting all HTTPS-encrypted internet traffic within its borders. Under a new directive effective 7/17, the Kazakhstan government is requiring every internet...