Google’s $135M Android Privacy Settlement: Who May Be Eligible
Image: Daniel Romero/Unsplash Google’s $135 million Android settlement could pay eligible US users who used Android devices with cellular data...
Data Privacy
WhatsApp Local Storage Claim Raises Apple Privacy Questions
End-to-end encryption can protect a message in transit, but it cannot protect every place that message lands. Researchers at Mysk...
Apple’s iPhone Privacy Feature Expands to More Users Worldwide
Apple is widening access to its iPhone location privacy tool, bringing tighter control over user data to far more carriers...
U.S. Officials Consider Three-Day Patch Rule in Wake of Anthropic’s Mythos
Federal officials reportedly are considering significantly cutting the amount of time U.S. agencies have to fix critical vulnerabilities in the...
FBI and International Agencies Shut Down Scam Centers, Arrest 276 People
The FBI and international law enforcement agencies shut down nine scam centers used to run cryptocurrency investment scams and arrested...
ADT Breach Exposes Data of 5.5 Million Customers, ShinyHunters Likely Behind Attack
The threat group ShinyHunters is claiming responsibility for a data breach of giant home security company ADT last week that...
Bitwarden CLI Compromise Linked to Ongoing Checkmarx Supply Chain Campaign
The command line interface (CLI) of the popular Bitwarden open source password manager is the latest target the ongoing Checkmarx...
Vercel Data Breach Linked to Earlier Context.ai Compromise
Hackers were able to leverage the compromise of agentic AI company Context.ai in February to take over a Google Workspace...
Trump Taxes and the Price of Privacy
There is an old saw in privacy and data breach litigation: Everyone gets paid—except, often, the victims. Plaintiffs’ lawyers receive...
New IBM Security Services Aim to Counter Security Risks of AI Frontier Models
IBM wants to use AI agents to help organizations assess their ability to protect themselves from the cybersecurity risks that...
OpenAI Follows Anthropic in Limiting Access to Its Cyber-Focused Model
It was only a week ago that Anthropic sent shockwaves through the cybersecurity industry with the announcement of Claude Mythos...
Comcast’s $117.5M Breach Settlement: Up to 30M People May Qualify
Image: Creative Commons Comcast has agreed to a $117.5 million class action settlement following a 2023 cybersecurity incident that exposed...
Google $135M Settlement: Millions of Android Users May Qualify for Payout
Image: Denny Müller/Unsplash A long-running dispute over background data use on Android phones is heading toward a payout, with millions...
Privacy-Preserving Data Analytics: Stop Collecting What You Do Not Need
There is an almost reflexive habit in data engineering: whenever you instrument an event, you attach a user ID. It...
Google Rolls Out End-to-End Encryption to Eligible Gmail Users on Mobile
Image: Rubaitul Azad/Unsplash Gmail is finally bringing end-to-end encryption to mobile devices, allowing eligible Google Workspace users to send and...
