Security News

SEC fines tech companies for misleading SolarWinds disclosures
2024-10-25 12:06

The Securities and Exchange Commission charged four current and former public companies – Unisys Corp., Avaya Holdings Corp., Check Point Software Technologies Ltd, and Mimecast Limited – with...

US lawmakers push DOJ to prosecute tax prep firms for leaking taxpayer data to big tech
2024-10-22 22:31

TaxSlayer, H&R Block, TaxAct, and Ramsey Solutions accused of sharing info with Meta and Google A quartet of Democratic lawmakers have penned a letter to the US Department of Justice asking it to...

SEC charges tech companies for downplaying SolarWinds breaches
2024-10-22 18:31

The SEC has charged four companies—Unisys Corp, Avaya Holdings, Check Point Software, and Mimecast—for allegedly misleading investors about the impact of their breaches during the massive 2020...

Tech firms to pay millions in SEC penalties for misleading SolarWinds disclosures
2024-10-22 16:31

Unisys, Avaya, Check Point, and Mimecast settled with the agency without admitting or denying wrongdoing Four high-profile tech companies reached an agreement with the Securities and Exchange...

Tech giant Nidec confirms data breach following ransomware attack
2024-10-18 16:37

Nidec Corporation is informing that hackers behind a ransomware attack is suffered earlier this year stole data and leaked it on the dark web. [...]

Justice Department Indicts Tech CEO for Falsifying Security Certifications
2024-10-18 13:58

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the CEO of a still unnamed company has been indicted for creating a fake auditing company to falsify security certifications in order to win government business.

Fore-get about privacy, golf tech biz leaves 32M data records on the fairway
2024-10-10 14:14

Researcher spots 110 TB of sensitive info sitting in unprotected database Nearly 32 million records belonging to users of tech from Trackman were left exposed to the internet, sitting in a...

Brits hate how big tech handles their data, but can't be bothered to do much about it
2024-10-03 09:15

Managing the endless stream of cookie banners leaves little energy for anything else Fewer than one in five Brits report being happy with the way their personal data is handled by big tech...

Remote ID verification tech is often biased, bungling, and no good on its own
2024-09-30 12:40

Only 2 out of 5 tested products were equitable across demographics A study by the US General Services Administration (GSA) has revealed that five remote identity verification (RiDV) technologies...

Rethinking privacy: A tech expert’s perspective
2024-09-26 03:30

Data privacy has become one of the most pressing challenges of our time, but it didn’t happen overnight. The proliferation of data collection, coupled with the rise of advanced technologies like...