TikTok to take additional measures to keep the youngest off the platform
TikTok committed themselves to taking new measures on the Italian market that will enhance those already in place to prevent the youngest from accessing their platform
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Cybercrime thrives during pandemic: Verizon 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report
Verizon Business 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report sheds light on how the most common forms of cyber attacks affected the international security.
Ransomware attackers are now using triple extortion tactics
Attackers are not only demanding ransom from organizations, but also threatening their customers, users and other third parties.
Biden issues the Executive Order on Cybersecurity
The purpose of the Order is to improve the security of commercial software, including by establishing baseline security requirements based on industry best practices.
Apple Execs Chose to Keep a Hack of 128 Million iPhones Quiet
Emails from the Epic Games lawsuit show Apple brass discussing how to handle a 2015 iOS hack. The company never directly notified affected users.
Stay Safe From App Tracking
What we can learn from Apple’s privacy labels, and how we can better protect our information.
Negotiations fail, threat actors dump more data from Metropolitan Police D.C.
Hackers stole more than 250 GB of data from Metropolitan Police D.C. Now they are threating to dump the data in public as negotiations fail.
TikTok to address privacy and security concerns via transparency centre
Video-sharing app TikTok says it plans to launch a European Transparency and Accountability Centre.
Trump Justice Department seized journalists’ phone records
The action grew out of a leak investigation surrounding reporting on Russia’s role in the 2016 election.
Data leak implicates over 200,000 people in Amazon fake product review scam
An open database has revealed the identities of over 200,000 individuals who appear to be involved in Amazon fake product review schemes. Names, email addresses, and PayPal details were exposed and left online.
Twitter’s Tip Jar Privacy Fiasco Was Entirely Avoidable
Sending its users to PayPal has created all sorts of problems that Twitter should have caught ahead of time.
Microsoft to Store and Process EU Data in the EU
If you are a commercial or public sector customer in the EU, Microsoft will enable you to process and store all data in the EU.