Data Security

The attorney general for Texas sued General Motors, claiming that the automaker is illegally collecting and selling customer data from 1.5 million Texans.

NIST has made clear that while there’s no need to panic, organizations need to start making plans to transition to post-quantum cryptography.

Algorithms by IBM have been leveraged as the basis for FIPS 203 and FIPS 204, with the former leveraged in Transport Security Layer and other main agreement protocols and the latter meant to facilitate accelerated verification of digital signatures.

Included in the leaked data dump, which was 44 GB compressed and 500 GB uncompressed, were emails, mobile numbers, and QQ IDs in JSON format, which may have been processed in May 2023.

While only city employees were reported by officials to have been affected by the incident, Goodwolf noted that information exfiltrated and exposed by Rhysida included those of city hall visitors, sexual assault and domestic violence victims, and youths who were crime suspects or victims, as well as names belonging to police officers who have been subpoenaed.

Microsoft Azure chatbots charged with handling personal medical data could be tricked into handing over personal data for hundreds of customers.

Data of more than 208,000 students potentially impacted in January breach.