New Jersey law enforcement officers sue 118 data brokers for not removing personal info Over the course of the last week, 118 class action lawsuits were filed against data brokers who allegedly failed ...

Data on more than 33 million people in France, approximately half the population, was compromised in a cyberattack at the end of January, according to the country’s privacy watchdog. The Commission ...

Editor’s Note: Late last year, cybersecurity researchers began to notice a ransomware strain called ALPHV that stood out for being particularly sophisticated and coded in the Rust programming language ...

Google will pay $350 million to settle a long-running class action lawsuit focused on how a security glitch in its now defunct Google Plus social media platform exposed millions of its users’ data to ...

A network of healthcare facilities across California reported a data breach last week after suffering from a ransomware attack in December. Some of the medical groups within the Heritage Provider ...

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation said that Americans lost more than $68 million to SIM swapping attacks in 2021, a number that has been exponentially increasing since 2018 when the agency first ...

In the two months since Russia-linked hackers attacked Ukraine’s largest telecom operator, many questions have emerged about how they gained access to the company's systems and lingered there, likely ...

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said it helped dozens of hospitals respond to a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) incidents last week that were launched by a ...

Despite years of promotional efforts to get users to enable stronger authentication mechanisms, Microsoft said this week that only 22% of all its Azure Active Directory (AD) customers used a ...

Companies, individuals and other victims of ransomware attacks paid hackers more than $1.1 billion in 2023 in exchange for unlocking their data, according to new research. Chainalysis — a blockchain ...

The Washington Department of Licensing (DOL) said in a press release late Friday night that it suffered a security breach of its IT system and that the personal data of hundreds of thousands of ...

In one of the most impactful changes made in recent years, Microsoft has announced today that it will block by default the execution of VBA macro scripts inside five Office applications. Starting with ...