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A back-end server associated with Microsoft Bing exposed sensitive data of the search engine's mobile application users, including search queries, device details, and GPS coordinates, among others. "Based on the sheer amount of data, it is safe to speculate that anyone who has made a Bing search with the mobile app while the server has been exposed is at risk," said WizCase's Chase Williams in a Monday post.
The front man for the notorious Dark Overlord hacker gang, which threatened to leak stolen confidential information unless paid off, has been sentenced to five years behind bars in America. Wyatt was among a crew of miscreants who since 2016 operated under the Dark Overlord brand: they would hack people and organizations, and threaten to dump their victims' private documents onto the web unless payment - typically between $75,000 and $350,000 in Bitcoin - was coughed up.
Apple has released iOS 14, with a bucketload of new and improved functional features and a handful of privacy and security ones. New privacy and security features in iOS 14 The new iOS will tell you when an app is using your camera or microphone.
Still, leasing is beneficial because rather than jeopardizing cybersecurity to purchase large volumes of hardware, enterprises can rent fully covered devices. Comparable to DaaS providers, leasing companies are responsible for device maintenance and have to ensure that every laptop, phone, and tablet has the appropriate security software.
Nathan Francis Wyatt , 39, who is a key member of the infamous international hacking group 'The Dark Overlord,' has been sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay $1,467,048 in restitution to his victims. U.K. police first arrested Wyatt in September 2016 during an investigation into the hacking of an iCloud account belonging to Pippa Middleton, the younger sister of the British royal family member Duchess of Cambridge, and stealing 3,000 images of her.
The ongoing debate surrounding privacy protection in the global data economy reached a fever pitch with July's "Schrems II" ruling at the European Court of Justice, which struck down the Privacy Shield - a legal mechanism enabling companies to transfer personal data from the EU to the US for processing - potentially disrupting the business of thousands of companies. The plaintiff, Austrian privacy advocate Max Schrems, claimed that US privacy legislation was insufficiently robust to prevent national security and intelligence authorities from acquiring - and misusing - Europeans' personal data.
In 1965, Gordon Moore published a short informal paper, Cramming more components onto integrated circuits. Based on not much more but these few data points and his knowledge of silicon chip development - he was head of R&D at Fairchild Semiconductors, the company that was to seed Silicon Valley - he said that for the next decade, component counts by area could double every year.
Only 44% of healthcare providers, including hospital and health systems, conformed to protocols outlined by the NIST CSF - with scores in some cases trending backwards since 2017, CynergisTek reveals. The report also found that healthcare supply chain security is one of the lowest ranked areas for NIST CSF conformance.
Only 12% of CISOs excel in all four categories of the Gartner CISO Effectiveness Index. The measure of CISO effectiveness is determined by a CISO's ability to execute against a set of outcomes in the four categories of functional leadership, information security service delivery, scaled governance and enterprise responsiveness.
32% said that they relied on their cloud provider's security services to provide security management for their public cloud assets. "The transition to remote work and new online contactless business models is not temporary and is affecting the future strategy on how organizations invest in cybersecurity," said Anna Convery-Pelletier, CMO at Radware.