Majority of Underwriters Predict Cyber Risks Grow ‘Greatly’ in 2024: Survey January 18, 2024 By Elizabeth Blosfield Underwriters who thought the growing cyber risk landscape of the past several years would level off soon might want to...
Google Settles $5 Billion Consumer Privacy Lawsuit December 29, 2023 By Jonathan Stempel Alphabet’s Google has agreed to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly tracked the internet use of millions of people who...
Rite Aid Banned From AI Facial Recognition by FTC After Misuse December 21, 2023 By Leah Nylen Rite Aid Corp. must stop using facial recognition for the next five years as part of a privacy settlement with...
Ex-First Republic Engineer in California Gets Prison for Cloud Hack December 12, 2023 By Robert Burnson A former First Republic Bank cloud engineer in San Francisco was sentenced to two years in prison for vandalizing the...
How Cybercriminals Are Using Wyoming Shell Companies for Global Hacks December 12, 2023 By Raphael Satter Somali reporter Abdalle Ahmed Mumin was doubly distressed when he heard that a colleague had been abducted by masked gunmen...
Washington Cancer Center Patients Get Threatening Emails Following Data Breach December 12, 2023 Some patients of a Seattle, Washington-based cancer center received threatening emails following a data breach last month. Fred Hutchinson Cancer...
New Mexico Sues Meta, CEO Zuckerberg Over Child Protection Failures December 7, 2023 By David Shepardson New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez on Wednesday said the state sued Facebook and Instagram parent Meta Platforms META.O and...
California Can Share Gun Owners’ Personal Information With Researchers, Court Rules November 28, 2023 By Trân Nguyen A state appeals court ruled that California can continue providing personal information of gun owners to researchers to study gun...
Biden Signs Sweeping Executive Order Regulating Artificial Intelligence October 30, 2023 By Courtney Rozen and Akayla Gardner President Joe Biden is directing the US government to take a sweeping approach to artificial intelligence regulation, his most significant...
Private Health Data Still Being Exposed to Big Tech, Report Says October 17, 2023 Despite recent efforts to address the issue, medical-related websites continue to be mined for data including personal medical information, in...