European Union lawmakers are facing further pressure to step in and do something about lackadaisical enforcement of the bloc’s flagship data protection regime after the European Parliament voted yesterday to […]
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Back to news homeFacebook loses last-ditch attempt to derail DPC decision on its EU-US data flows
Facebook has failed in its bid to prevent its lead EU data protection regulator from pushing ahead with a decision on whether to order suspension of its EU-US data flows. […]
Passwordstate users warned to ‘reset all passwords’ after attackers plant malicious update
Click Studios, the Australian software house that develops the enterprise password manager Passwordstate, has warned customers to reset passwords across their organizations after a cyberattack on the password manager. An […]
Cybersecurity training startup Hack The Box raises $10.6M Series A led by Paladin Capital
Cybersecurity training startup Hack The Box, which emerged originally from Greece, has raised a Series A investment round of $10.6 million, led by Paladin Capital Group and joined by Osage […]
Hack takes: A CISO and a hacker detail how they’d respond to the Exchange breach
Aaron Fosdick Contributor Aaron Fosdick is CISO at Randori, a cybersecurity firm that provides offensive security services. David Wolpoff Contributor A career hacker, David “Moose” Wolpoff is CTO and co-founder […]
Indian state government website exposed COVID-19 lab test results
A security flaw in a website run by the government of West Bengal in India exposed the lab results of at least hundreds of thousands of residents, though likely millions, […]
MetroMile says a website bug let a hacker obtain driver’s license numbers
Car insurance startup MetroMile said it has fixed a security flaw on its website that allowed a hacker to obtain driver’s license numbers. The San Francisco-based insurance startup disclosed the […]
Cybersecurity startup SpiderSilk raises $2.25M to help prevent data breaches
Dubai-based cybersecurity startup SpiderSilk has raised $2.25 million in a pre-Series A round, led by venture firms Global Ventures and STV. In the past two years, SpiderSilk has discovered some […]
TaskRabbit is resetting customer passwords after finding ‘suspicious activity’ on its network
TaskRabbit has reset an unknown number of customer passwords after confirming it detected “suspicious activity” on its network. The IKEA -owned online marketplace for on-demand labor said it reset user […]
Animal Jam was hacked, and data stolen. Here’s what parents need to know
WildWorks, the gaming company that makes the popular kids game Animal Jam, has confirmed a data breach. Animal Jam is one of the most popular games for kids, ranking in […]