Data Security

TikTok has moved to allay concerns regarding the Chinese government's access to American's data, National Public Radio reports.

According to Moody’s, a bond credit ratings business that now regularly tracks the economic fallout from cyberattacks, the news headlines and surface damage done to Costa Rican IT infrastructure has overshadowed a more complex picture.

Retail chains operate on thin margins with very tight IT and security budgets, so news on Thursday that Wegmans agreed to pay the state of New York $400,000 and upgrade its cybersecurity operations for a cloud misconfiguration was hardly a shocker to security industry insiders.

The California Department of Justice has disclosed that individuals who applied for a concealed-and-carry weapons permit from 2011 to 2021 had their personal data leaked following the overhaul of the state's Firearms Dashboard Portal, The Register reports.

BleepingComputer reports that threat actors behind the XFiles info-stealer have updated the malware to include a delivery module exploiting the Follina vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-30190, to facilitate payload downloads and execution.

Russian, Indian, and U.A.E. hack-for-hire groups had up to 36 malicious domains disrupted by Google's Threat Analysis Group, reports The Hacker News.

Flagstar Bank acknowledgment hackers gained access to customers' personal information is a recent of financial institutions becoming leading targets for cyber criminals.

The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights shared a privacy guide targeting patient privacy and safety concerns following the Supreme Court’s abortion ruling.