Privacy

ZDNET reports that Twitter has been revealed to have significant user privacy protection and content moderation deficiencies in a whistleblower testimony by former Twitter Chief Security Officer Peiter 'Mudge' Zatko.

Ars Technica reports that at least 15 million of Plex's 30 million subscribers had their usernames, emails, and encrypted passwords, but not payment card details, compromised following a data breach that impacted the streaming media platform's proprietary database.

Nearly 5,000 healthcare data breaches have been reported to the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights between 2009 and June 2022, resulting in the exposure of over 342 million health records, HealthITSecurity reports.

Numerous info-stealer malware distribution campaigns leveraging pirated software, SEO poisoning, and malvertising have been underway, with threat actors using cracked versions of Adobe Acrobat Pro, 7-Data Recovery Suite, 3DMark, 3DVista Virtual Tour Pro, Wondershare Dr.

U.S. consumers finally selected protection over paying fees as the key determining factor in picking and staying with a bank, according to recent research released by Verint.

Several well-known Wall Street U.S. banks will be dipping into their own pockets to pay more than $1 billion all together in regulatory fines because their traders used private messaging applications such as WhatsApp in their work, due to potential security and privacy issues of this practice.

This week’s healthcare data breach roundup includes numerous delayed notifications, including a ransomware attack on Practice Resources that led to data theft for 28 of its provider clients.

The Brennan Center for Justice's FOIA and subsequent legal action are designed in part to determine whether the government’s social media monitoring has suffered from mission creep.