In the USA 10 major data brokers have data on individuals’ demographic characteristics (from race to gender to income level) and political preferences and beliefs (including support for the NAACP, ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and the National LGBTQ Task Force), and on current US government and military personnel. Several of these firms also market: Americans’ geo-locations. […]
In a large-scale phishing campaign designed to steal credentials, criminals are using open redirects and captchas to deceive victims, Microsoft reports. The attack starts with a phishing email that masquerades as a Zoom invitation, Microsoft 365 notification, or a message that the password has expired. Users are then prompted to open a link in the […]
Power Apps, a low-code development platform for creating business-intelligence tools, were susceptible to a default configuration that made their data sets findable by search engines or anyone with knowledge of the web address. 38 million records pf 47 organizations— containing names, dates of birth, addresses and, in some cases, Social Security numbers were exposed.
Amazon has fired a driver by an automatically generated email by a Bot. Worldwide 4 million drivers have downloaded the app, including 2.9 million in the U.S., according to App Annie which services the AI decision making. Do you think the AI usage in Human Resources here corresponds righteous with the ‘intended purpose’ and ‘reasonably foreseeable misuse’ […]
The European Commission has a plan which enables citizens to identify themselves and share electronic documents from a special wallet app for smartphones. Major platforms will be required to accept the new European digital identity. The European Commission states that the use of identity by citizens will be voluntary. “The new European digital identity wallets […]
Today the Commission issued modernised standard contractual clauses under the GDPR for data transfers from controllers or processors in the EU/EEA (or otherwise subject to the GDPR) to controllers or processors established outside the EU/EEA (and not subject to the GDPR). These modernised SCCs will replace the three sets of SCCs that were adopted under […]
The European privacy regulator EDPS is launching two investigations into the use of Amazon’s and Microsoft’s cloud services by EU authorities. The reason is the invalidity of the Privacy Shield treaty between the EU and the United States. The European regulator states that when using the tools and services of major service providers, personal data […]
Cybersecurity researchers disclosed details about 13 vulnerabilities in the Nagios network monitoring application that could be abused by an adversary to hijack the infrastructure without any operator intervention. Nagios is an open-source IT infrastructure tool that offers monitoring and alerting services for servers, network cards, applications, and services.
Cyberinsurance giant AXA said that it would no longer be writing policies to cover ransomware payments. Now AXA in Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and the Phillippines have reportedly been hit… by a ransomware attack. The ransomware gang posted on its website over the weekend that it had stolen 3 terabytes worth of data, including: customers’ […]
You can not enforce consent by stating the WhatsApp services will otherwise be limited. Consent should be freely given. There is no contractual need for the personal data exchange with Facebook.