FTC Warns Tech Giants Not To Bow To Foreign Pressure on Encryption Summary The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), via Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson, has warned major American technology companies…
Summary Farmers Insurance disclosed a data breach affecting 1,111,386 customers after an unauthorised actor accessed a third-party vendor database on 29 May 2025, detected on 30 May. The incident is…
Maryland investigating cyberattack impacting transit service for disabled people Summary Several Maryland state departments are responding to a cyberattack that has affected systems used to organise specialised transport for disabled…
Bug bounties: The good, the bad, and the frankly ridiculous ways to do it Summary The Register traces the thirty-year arc of commercial bug bounty programmes — from Netscape’s early…
Australian university used Wi-Fi location data to identify student protestors Summary The University of Melbourne used Wi‑Fi location data, alongside CCTV footage, to identify students involved in a July 2024…
AWS, Cloudflare, Digital Ocean, and Google helped Feds investigate alleged Rapper Bot DDoS perp Summary The Department of Justice has thanked several industry players — including Akamai, Amazon Web Services,…
Practical Guide to Cloud Outsourcing Governance: Building an Audit-Ready Plan for Third-Party Risk and Resilience Summary This Practical Guide helps senior IT leaders create an audit-ready cloud outsourcing governance plan.…
Google To Require Identity Verification for All Android App Developers by 2027 Summary Google will introduce a developer identity verification requirement for all Android apps installed on certified devices. The…
Perplexity’s AI Browser Comet Vulnerable To Prompt Injection Attacks That Hijack User Accounts Summary Security researchers from Brave and Guardio Labs have independently disclosed critical prompt-injection vulnerabilities in Perplexity’s AI-powered…
FTC Warns Tech Giants Not To Bow To Foreign Pressure on Encryption Summary The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has formally warned major American technology companies against yielding to foreign…
