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Watchdog Urges More Protection for Consumers’ Data
The director of a US watchdog agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), has urged the US Congress to do more to protect consumers’ financial data, citing some companies' reported plans to monetize their customers’ t...
High-Profile Business Leaders' Personal Info Leaked in Clarity.fm Data Breach
Clarity.fm, an online platform that connects entrepreneurs and professionals with on-demand expert advice from industry leaders and specialists, has experienced a data breach that leaked the personal information of more than 121,0...
Microsoft and Google to Boost Cybersecurity for Rural Hospitals
The White House is partnering with Microsoft and Google to provide free or discounted cybersecurity services to rural hospitals across the US in an effort to reduce their vulnerability to cyberattacks.
The White House and the t...
Ad Blocking Just Got Harder: YouTube Tests Server-Side Ad Injection
YouTube's efforts to curb ad-blocking tools are evolving.
The company is reportedly experimenting with injecting ads directly into video streams, which would make it a lot more challenging for ad blockers to prevent advertiseme...
Russian Hackers Claim Cyberattack on Spanish Defense Contractor
NoName, a pro-Russia hacker group, has recently announced that it’s launched a cyberattack against Santa Barbara Systems’s website.
Santa Barbara Systems is a subsidiary of General Dynamics located in Spain, which is currently...
Frontier Communications Faces Ransomware Attack
Telecom company, Frontier Communications, recently faced a ransomware attack that exposed the personally identifiable information (PII) of more than 750,000 users. The breach was detected on April 14.
The company took immediate...
Customers Sue Christie’s Auction House Over Theft of Personal Data
On June 3, clients of Christie’s filed a class-action lawsuit against the art world’s most expensive auction house for a data breach in which their personally identifiable information (PII) was stolen and put up for sale on the da...
Hackers Target Turkish Kebab Businesses
A service provider used by multiple Turkish food delivery services was found to have a gaping vulnerability that leaked customer data each time an order was placed.
"Each time a new order comes, any outsider can find out sensit...
EmailGPT's Prompt Injection Flaw Threatens User Data
A major security issue has been identified in EmailGPT, a Chrome extension that leverages OpenAI's GPT models to assist with email drafting in Gmail.
The vulnerability, which was discovered by researchers at Synopsys Cybersecur...
Fallout Expands From Breaches of Customer Databases on Snowflake Platform
The financial services company LendingTree has confirmed that its subsidiary, QuoteWizard, may have been affected by the recent breaches of customer databases hosted on the Snowflake platform.
On June 7, a spokesman for Lending...