Targeted advertising may face additional restrictions following a ruling by the top European Union court that social media giant Meta cannot indefinitely retain user data. Nor can it use data for advertising "without distinction as to type of data," the European Court of Justice said Friday.
The Irish data regulator fined social media giant Meta 91 million euros after an investigation found the company insecurely stored passwords of millions of European Facebook and Instagram users. A Meta spokesperson said the company identified the problem in 2019 and took "immediate action."
The British data regulator reprimanded the U.K.'s Electoral Commission for its failure to prevent a 2021 hack attack that resulted in the exposure of millions of voter records. Hackers breached the Electoral Commission's networks after exploiting the ProxyShell vulnerability.
Integration of identity and access management systems across the enterprise is a problem for many companies and many report to having significant identity silos with limited to no integration. In a recent survey, we studied the industry’s leading cybersecurity challenges and approaches when it comes to gaining...
A coalition of cyber insurance associations has pledged to back fresh government cybersecurity guidance designed to help victims avoid ever paying a ransom as part of an ongoing push to reduce ransomware's profitability for criminals, in part by improving organizations' resilience and recovery.
Social media giant Meta's attempt to navigate European data protection rules by offering a fee-based opt-out from behavioral advertising came under fire Wednesday by a trading bloc agency that said freedom from personalized marketing should typically be free.
Nation-state attackers apparently backdoored widely used, open-source data compression software as part of a supply chain attack. Malicious code inserted into recent versions of XZ Utils was designed to facilitate full, remote access to an infected system.
The European Commission will scrutinize Meta's pivot to a subscription model in response to a string of rulings from data protection boards limiting the social media giant's ability to legally collect user data. Europe announced a slew of investigations into American big-tech companies.
Facebook's attempt to navigate European privacy regulations by giving users a fee-based opt-out from behavioral advertising triggered backlash from more than a dozen European politicians who accused the social media giant of treating human rights as a commodity.
In this videocast interview, Theo Zafirakos, CISO, Terranova Security, provides expert analysis of the "Securing Your Third-Party Supply Chain in 2024 Survey" results, including a deep dive into the core conclusions, including the core detriments of poor visibility of cybersecurity awareness, and how to better...
Welcome to the report summarizing the survey, "Securing Your
Third-Party Supply Chain Through Security Awareness."
In late fall 2023, Information Security Media Group partnered with Forta's Terranova Security and surveyed over 100
senior cybersecurity professionals to identify:
The top organizational challenges in...
Dive into the exciting intersection of innovation and security! Join this session to unlock the secrets of securing your code while harnessing AI's potential. Explore parallels between past open source security concerns and today's AI-generated code anxieties, and where AI can play a role in securing your...
Varonis CEO Yaki Faitelson is fond of saying "You can't unbreach data." In this interview, he discusses generative AI, as well as other technologies and trends and how they impact the ways enterprises view and secure their most critical data.
Managed service providers (MSPs) face a myriad of challenges when it comes to managing their data backups efficiently. The complexity of MSP environments, combined with the ever-increasing volume of data and cyberthreats, makes safeguarding critical business information a daunting task.
The technicians are caught...
The head TikTok has been summoned by European lawmakers from different parliamentary committees for an inquiry into its privacy practices. In a letter sent to TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew on Thursday, the heads of five European Parliament committees requested that Chew appear for an in-person probe.
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