Scott Ikeda

The Irish DPC has opened an EU-wide investigation into the EU's biggest budget carrier, questioning whether its use of facial recognition to verify the identities of passengers that booked through third-party sites is compliant with GDPR terms.

Numbers drawn from Allianz internal customer data show a 17% increase in the value of cyber claims and a 14% increase in frequency during this period. The central driver is class action lawsuits connected to data and privacy breaches.

A new research report from ESET finds that the "GoldenJackal" advanced persistent threat group has the capability to compromise air-gapped systems, and has been deploying it in Europe since at least 2022.

The Internet Archive has been under heavy attack in the past week, suffering both a major data breach and a series of potent DDoS attacks that have taken it offline.

Researchers at Shanghai University used the D-Wave quantum computer to demonstrate decryption of a working RSA public key. The incident does demonstrate that the timeline to crack encryption that is not quantum-resistant, something that many feel is still at least 10 years off, may be shorter than expected.

A new report from Mandiant indicates that 70% of 2023's total of 138 exploited vulnerabilities were zero-days when first used, with the average time-to-exploit (TTE) dropping drastically from 32 days to just five.

USDoD has a years-long history of data breaches, leaking the stolen information or offering it for sale on hacking forums. This has included some extremely damaging collections of information, the largest of which thus far has been the National Public Data breach.

Business and employment networking giant LinkedIn is being hit with a big GDPR fine for failure to obtain sufficiently informed consent for ad tracking, and for not having a valid basis for its processing of first party personal data for this purpose.

The noyb privacy complaint notes that Pinterest has invoked the "legitimate interest" exception to user consent for ad tracking, one of a small handful of such exceptions provided for by the GDPR. The problem for the company is that Meta has already tried this tack and failed.

The Biden White House continues to seek a balance between AI innovation and safe ethical use with a new national security memorandum that stresses the need to outcompete rivals, but also sets limits in the most potentially abusive areas.