FCC proposes new rule to further crackdown on illegal robocalls
The rule would force originating providers to gather more information from customers before they allow calls, verify the provided data more carefully and be ...
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Questions raised about how LinkedIn uses the petabytes of data it collects
Through LinkedIn’s more than one billion business users, the Microsoft unit has access to a vast array of personally-identifiable information, including data...
What managing partners should ask AI vendors before signing any contract
In this Help Net Security interview, Kumar Ravi is the Chief Security & Resilience Officer at TMF Group, argues that over-privileged access and weak workflow...
New Mexico’s Meta Ruling and Encryption
Mike Masnick points out that the recent New Mexico court ruling against Meta has some bad implications for end-to-end encryption, and security in general: If...
Scammers use fake traffic violation texts with QR codes for phishing
This latest scam is a variation of previous toll and parking ticket scams, but instead of links, it features an image of a fake court notice with an embedded...
Employee Data Breaches Surge to Seven-Year High
Analysis from law firm Nockolds suggests non-cyber incidents are driving up employee data breaches
Diligent automates time-consuming steps in third-party reviews
Diligent launched of Third-Party Risk Intel, an agentic due diligence and intelligence solution that automates the most time-consuming steps of third-party r...
Dutch court threatens xAI with fines over Grok's nonconsensual nude images
Grok — which is owned by Elon Musk’s xAI — will be forced to pay damages of €100,000 ($115,000) a day if it does not comply, according to the ruling.
UK cyber chief urges ‘full court press’ to counter rising cyber threats
In a keynote speech at the RSA Conference, National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) CEO Richard Horne said cyber risks are now “of greater consequence than ever...
‘Your Data Will Be Used Against You’: Author of new book on the dangers of a surveillance society
The author of a new book on surveillance discusses how an upcoming Supreme Court case could limit what data police can dig up showing individuals’ locations.
DoJ Disrupts 3 Million-Device IoT Botnets Behind Record 31.4 Tbps Global DDoS Attacks
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No Place Like Home Network: Disrupting the World's Largest Residential Proxy Network
Introduction This week Google and partners took action to disrupt what we believe is one of the largest residential proxy networks in the world, the IPIDEA p...
Law Firm Investigates Coupang Security Failures Ahead of Class Action Deadline
The US law firm Hagens Berman will lead a class action lawsuit against Coupang over security failures that led to a June 2025 data breach
The Hidden Cascade: Why Law Firm Breaches Destroy More than Data
Discover how law firm breaches expose decades of M&A intelligence, client data, and privileged strategy—and how to reduce cascading vendor risk before it hits.