Most digital forensics and incident response incidents involved data exfiltration or intellectual property theft, followed by business email compromise and employee misconduct, TechRepublic reports.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee met again to assess how to craft a bipartisan federal privacy law that would give consumers control over their data and prevent big tech exploitation.
GoodRx is required to send consumers breach notices over the alleged egregious privacy practices that enabled consumer data to be shared with third parties without user consent.
Mozilla researchers reported that almost 80% of Google Play Store apps have not been accurately reporting user data management as shown by the significant disparities between the apps' data privacy policies and Google's forms seeking data collection information, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
Eighty-five percent of organizations around the world are poised to have 6.5% higher data protection spending this year, which is higher than other IT spending gains, amid the increasing prevalence of cyberattacks, SiliconAngle reports.
Even though the ongoing economic downturn is expected by 85% of C-suite executives to prompt layoffs at their organizations, only 10% of those in the cybersecurity industry noted the potential for job cuts this year, which is lower than those in human resources, finance, operations, marketing, and sales, Fortune reports.
Only $18.5 billion in venture capital financing were received by cybersecurity startups in 2022, compared with $30.3 billion in 2021, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
Video game developer Activision has been impacted by a data breach in December following the compromise of its internal systems via an SMS phishing attack, according to BleepingComputer.
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