Sen. Ron Wyden is reportedly pushing for lengthy prison sentences for CEOs of tech companies that repeatedly violate privacy laws. The Oregon senators says that in his proposal, companies would be fined up to 4 percent of their annual revenue on their first privacy or cybersecurity...
Security experts recently voiced their concerns regarding Canada’s new privacy legislation, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (or PIPEDA), saying that it does not go as far as it should. The new rules, which took effect last Thursday, will require Canadian companies to alert...
VKontakte, Russia’s biggest social network, was recently sued for sharing the personal data of its users with the authorities. The lawsuit, which was filed by Lilia Chanysheva with the Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg, sought to ask the court to declare the social network’s...
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to uphold privacy rights after the privacy commissioner said he is investigating the request of Statistics Canada for the private banking data from 500,000 Canadians. Scheer emphasized that it does not matter what the PM wants...
The Radisson Hotel Group disclosed this week that it had suffered a data breach that may affect its Radisson Rewards members. Radisson says that it discovered the beach on October 1, but cannot confirm when it actually began. The hotel group added that while member name,...
New research published by Justin Paine, Head of Trust & Safety at Cloudflare, revealed that Nigerian airline Arik Air may have leaked the sensitive data of its customers kept in an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket. Paine says that the airline might have leaked its own data...
The cybercriminal group behind the Emotet malware has reportedly embarked on a mass email harvesting campaign using a revamped version of their banking trojan, according to Kryptos Logic this week. It is said that the malware has become so ubiquitous that US Homeland Security had...
Consumer Reports recently warned that the D-Link DCS-2630L may not be secure as a flaw allows the transmission of unencrypted video footage online. The issue is partly caused by the camera’s use of its onboard server which delivers the video feed via the MydlinkLite App or...
In response to an inquiry by the Shenzhen Stock Exchange this week, the Beijing Genomics Institute said that it had done nothing wrong in its collection of samples from over 100,000 pregnant women, and there had been no leak of genetic data stored in the...
Secure messaging app Signal announced this week that it is testing a new technique that will minimize metadata in communications that may be accessible to its servers. Signal says that its “sealed sender” technique should remove most of the plain-text sender information from message headers. It...