Crimson Hexagon, a company that generates consumer insights from public social media posts, has been suspended from Facebook while the social media giant evaluates whether the data collection firm violated Facebook policies.
Last week, a New Jersey woman was formally charged in Los Angeles County on July 13 with hacking the email accounts of DeLuise's onscreen daughter, actress and singer Selena Gomez and her associate.
U.S. Congressman John Ratcliffe, R-Tex., yesterday introduced a bill that, if passed, would officially codify the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Continuous Diagnostics Mitigation (CDM) cybersecurity program, and allow the agency to modernize it as needed.
The files included names, phone numbers, addresses, political affiliation, birth years, gender, jurisdiction and demographics based on ethnicity, education and language.
Walmart Tuesday filed a patent for audio surveillance technology to record customers and employees to proposedly focus on minute details of the shopping and checkout.
During its probe of a breach that prompted the company to deauthenticated 21 million user accounts, Timehop discovered that hackers had stolen birthdates as well as gender and country information.
The social media giant seemed resigned to taking its medicine, admitting that it should have more thoroughly investigated claims about Cambridge Analytica.
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