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Eufy cameras claim to be local only, but upload data to the cloud. The company is basically lying to reporters, despite being shown evidence to the contrary.

This is where automation is critical to scale security and compliance. Automation enables compliance and security standardization.

Apple on Wednesday announced a raft of security measures, including an Advanced Data Protection setting that enables end-to-end encrypted data backups in its iCloud service. "If you enable Advanced Data Protection and then lose access to your account, Apple will not have the encryption keys to help you recover it - you'll need to use your device passcode or password, a recovery contact, or a personal recovery key," Apple explains in a support document.

In the coming year, expect to see exponential growth in other types of spatial data, such as a person's movement or appearance all of which will further complicate data and cyber security experts' ability to protect these assets. In 2023, security professionals will need to properly provision personal data that may be exposed in the metaverse, to protect it from being illegally sold or distributed.

Appdome unveiled the results of a global survey that shares the views of 25,000 consumers in 11 countries on mobile app use and consumer expectations of mobile app security. With 53.5% of consumers now preferring mobile apps to other digital channels, the report is incredibly timely for all brands with mobile strategies.

ConductorOne open-sourced their identity connectors in a project called Baton, available on GitHub. Each connector gives developers the ability to extract, normalize, and interact with workforce...

Google has released the December 2022 security update for Android, fixing four critical-severity vulnerabilities, including a remote code execution flaw exploitable via Bluetooth. CVE-2022-20472 - Remote code execution flaw in Android Framework, impacting Android versions 10 to 13.

Cloud computing company Rackspace has suffered a security breach that has resulted in a still ongoing outage of their Hosted Exchange environment.The connectivity issues for Rackspace Hosted Exchange customers - mostly small to medium size businesses - started on Friday, with users experiencing errors when accessing the Outlook Web App and syncing their email clients.

Some of Rackspace's hosted Microsoft Exchange services have been taken down by what the company has described as a "Security incident". "On Friday, Dec 2, 2022, we became aware of an issue impacting our Hosted Exchange environment. We proactively powered down and disconnected the Hosted Exchange environment while we triaged to understand the extent and the severity of the impact. After further analysis, we have determined that this is a security incident."

American cloud computing services provider Rackspace says an ongoing outage affecting its hosted Microsoft Exchange environments and likely thousands of customers was caused by a security incident. "We are investigating an issue that is affecting our Hosted Exchange environments. More details will be posted as they become available," Rackspace said on Friday night, at 02:49 AM EST, when it acknowledged the outage.