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Back to news homeA security lapse exposed India’s CISF personnel files and health records
Internal documents, officer health records, and personnel files belonging to India’s Central Industrial Security Force were spilling online because of a data security lapse. A security researcher in India, who […]
Ireland’s privacy watchdog sued for inaction over ‘massive Google data breach’
Ireland’s evasive response to a major security complaint filed against Google’s adtech the year the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into application is the target of a […]
Nvidia says hackers are leaking company data after ransomware attack
Nvidia has confirmed that hackers stole sensitive data from its networks, including employee credentials and proprietary company information, during last week’s cyberattack and are now “leaking it online,” a spokesperson […]
Why are cybersecurity asset management startups so hot right now?
In the world of cybersecurity, you can’t secure something if you don’t know it’s there. Enter cybersecurity asset management, an admittedly unsexy fragment of the booming industry that investors have […]
How to avoid falling into China’s ‘data trap’
Dr. Samantha Hoffman Contributor Dr. Samantha Hoffman is a senior analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s International Cyber Policy Centre and an independent consultant. The TechCrunch Global Affairs Project examines the […]
FIN7 hackers set up a fake company to recruit for cyberattacks
FIN7, a financially motivated Russian hacking group, has set up a fake company to lure unwitting IT specialists into supporting its continued expansion into ransomware, security researchers have found. According […]
Arctic Wolf acquires ‘Hollywood-style’ cybersecurity training startup Habitu8
Arctic Wolf, a managed cybersecurity company that offers a “security operations-as-a-concierge” service, has acquired Habitu8, a security training and awareness content platform. Terms of the deal – which comes just […]
Twitter’s Rinki Sethi on why CISOs win when security is a shared responsibility
Starting a new job can be stressful at the best of times. During lockdown, it can be a real challenge. Rinki Sethi joined Twitter as its chief information officer a […]
After years of inaction against adtech, UK’s ICO calls for browser-level controls to fix ‘cookie fatigue’
In the latest quasi-throwback toward ‘do not track‘, the UK’s data protection chief has come out in favor of a browser- and/or device-level setting to allow Internet users to set […]