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Google has disclosed the second security hole in its Google+ social network in three months. This one exposed private information from 100 times as many users as the first, and has prompted the company to hasten the service’s demise.
As vulnerabilities go, it was the best sort: found by internal testing before it led to a security breach. Nevertheless, the latest Google+ software vulnerability was enough to push forward shutting down the service: Google now says it will be shuttered by April 2019 rather than the originally planned August 2019.
According to the EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) Implementation Review Survey conducted by IT Governance, six months after the GDPR went into effect, the majority of organizations are failing to implement the mandatory regulations.
After asking for their customers' personal information in Fallout 76 support tickets, American video game publisher Bethesda Software LLC exposed those tickets to public access allowing anyone to view, edit, and resolve them.
On Wednesday, Genomics England – an ambitious project to map the DNA of a million Brits – proudly announced that it had completed the “100,000 Genomes Project” started in 2013, having sequenced 100,000 whole genomes in the National Health Service (NHS).
Want to know what Mark Zuckerberg and his underlings really think about us users? Get ready to read ’em and weep: against the wishes of the Facebook CEO, the UK parliament’s inquiry into fake news has published confidential correspondence between Zuck and his staff.
Uber has been fined over £900,000 by UK and Dutch watchdogs in relation to a 2016 data breach which impacted customer data.
A German privacy regulator has issued its first GDPR fine after a hacker stole unencrypted data on hundreds of thousands of customers of a local chat app.
LinkedIn, the social network for the working world with close to 600 million users, has been called out a number of times for how it is able to suggest uncanny connections to you, when it’s not even clear how or why LinkedIn would know enough to make those suggestions in the first place.
The US Postal Service has fixed a security bug in its website that allowed anyone with an account to see the account details of the site's 60 million users.
In April, with the GDPR deadline and its requirement for data portability looming, Instagram released the long-anticipated download your data tool. The feature gave users the ability to download images, posts and comments.
According to The Information, Instagram has suffered a serious security leak of its own that could've exposed user's passwords. While Facebook recently had a much more serious problem linked to its "View As" tool that was being actively exploited by... someone, the Instagram issue is linked to its tool that allows users to download a copy of their data.
The decision to make recreational cannabis legal in Ontario, Canada, has been fraught with problems and now has been tarnished by a data breach at Canada Post.
Privacy International has filed complaints against seven companies including Experian, Equifax and Oracle for alleged contravention of the GDPR.
Mark Z, how do you feel about orange? Like, say, in a jumpsuit style? Kidding! No court has found that you, the Facebook CEO, has purposefully misled the government about how your company did/did not protect consumers’ data during, say, the multifaceted, ever-unfolding, Cambridge Analytica privacy debacle.
The value of fines issued by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has increased 24% in the year to September 30 versus the previous year, according to new data.
Legal experts have warned organizations in certain highly regulated industries that they could be fined twice under new EU security laws with huge maximum penalties.
Supermarket giant Morrisons has been told by the Court of Appeal that it is liable for the actions of a malicious insider who breached data on 100,000 employees, setting up a potential hefty class action pay-out.
The UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) appears to have exposed highly sensitive data and systems to the risk of compromise after reports revealed 37 breaches of security protocol last year.
After months of hiding a relative pipsqueak of a data breach that happened through a Google+ API, Google on Monday ‘fessed up, said it was shuttering its Facebook-wannabe-but-never-gonna-happen social media platform, and was looking at a potential class action lawsuit that got filed within hours of the breach disclosure.
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