IT総合 Announcing the Security Stage agenda at TechCrunch Disrupt
A few weeks ago we introduced you to the brand new Security Stage, our debut space dedicated to cybersecurity at TechCru...
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IT総合 IT総合 US intelligence confirms it buys Americans’ personal data
A newly declassified government report confirms for the first time that U.S. intelligence and spy agencies purchase vast...
IT総合 Another huge US medical data breach confirmed after Fortra mass-hack
Hackers stole another half a million people’s personal and health information during a ransomware attack on a tech...
IT総合 Shell Recharge security lapse exposed EV drivers’ data
Oil giant Shell said it is investigating after a security researcher found an exposed internal database spilling the per...
IT総合 Microsoft to pay $20M settlement for illegally collecting children’s personal data
Microsoft will pay $20 million to settle charges brought by the Federal Trade Commission accusing the tech giant of ille...
IT総合 Amazon’s Ring to pay $5.8M after staff and contractors caught snooping on customer videos, FTC says
Ring, the Amazon-owned maker of video surveillance devices, will pay $5.8 million over claims brought by the Federal Tra...
IT総合 Toyota confirms another years-long data leak, this time exposing at least 260,000 car owners
Two weeks ago, Toyota said it exposed the data of more than two million customers to the internet for a decade. Today, t...
IT総合 A popular Android app began secretly spying on its users months after it was approved on Google Play
A cybersecurity firm says a popular Android screen recording app that racked up tens of thousands of downloads on Google...
IT総合 Popular Android TV boxes sold on Amazon are laced with malware
AllWinner and RockChip might not be household names, but the two China-based companies manufacture several wildly popula...
IT総合 Telly, the ‘free’ smart TV with ads, has privacy policy red flags
Yesterday, we looked at a new hardware startup called Telly that’s giving away half a million of its new smart tel...
IT総合 Brightly says SchoolDude data breach spilled 3 million user accounts
Software maker Brightly has confirmed that hackers stole close to three million SchoolDude user accounts in an April dat...
IT総合 Toyota Japan exposed data on millions of vehicles for a decade
Toyota Japan has apologized after admitting to leaving millions of customers’ vehicle details on the public intern...
IT総合 Apple releases first ‘rapid’ security fixes for iPhones, iPads and Macs
fApple on Monday released its first batch of publicly available “rapid security” patches, aimed at quickly f...
IT総合 CommScope employees left in the dark after ransomware attack
CommScope employees say they haven’t heard from executives in over a week about how the company is responding to a...
IT総合 NationsBenefits confirms thousands had personal data stolen in Fortra breach
The fallout from Fortra’s mass ransomware attack continues as another corporate giant confirmed thousands of healt...
IT総合 The Security Stage debuts at Disrupt 2023
If you haven’t noticed, the internet is frequently on fire. Overseas cyberattacks are hitting public services like...
IT総合 Throne fixes security bug that exposed creators’ private home addresses
A recently fixed security bug at a popular platform for supporting creators shows how even privacy-focused platforms can...
IT総合 Alcohol recovery startups Monument and Tempest shared patients’ private data with advertisers
For years, online alcohol recovery startups Monument and Tempest were sharing the personal information and health data o...
IT総合 Lawmakers call on USPS to combat surge in ‘change of address’ fraud
A group of bipartisan lawmakers has called on the U.S. Postal Service to strengthen its internal processes to reduce cha...
IT総合 Biden executive order bans federal agencies from using commercial spyware
The Biden administration on Monday announced a new executive order that would broadly ban U.S. federal agencies from usi...
IT総合 Fortra told breached companies their data was safe
Software maker Fortra told its corporate customers that their data was safe — even when it wasn’t — following a ra...
IT総合 Kids tech camp iD Tech still silent weeks after data breach
Parents are still looking for answers weeks after hackers stole the personal data of thousands of users from kids’...
IT総合 Google warns users to take action to protect against remotely exploitable flaws in popular Android phones
Google’s security research unit is sounding the alarm on a set of vulnerabilities it found in certain Samsung chips incl...
IT総合 Telehealth startup Cerebral shared millions of patients’ data with advertisers
Cerebral has revealed it shared the private health information, including mental health assessments, of more than 3.1 mi...
IT総合 PeopleGrove security lapse exposed users’ personal information
PeopleGrove confirmed Thursday that it’s investigating after a security lapse exposed users’ personal inform...
IT総合 Today’s startups should terrify you
A steady stream of new startups pitch their ideas, concepts, products and services on a daily basis to TechCrunch report...
IT総合 Secret Service and ICE conducted warrantless stingray surveillance, says watchdog
A government watchdog has found that the Secret Service and ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) unit repe...
IT総合 The life-upending flaw that USPS won’t fix
Sometime in November, someone walked into a U.S. post office and filled out a change of address form, just as tens of mi...
IT総合 Sensitive US military emails spill online
The U.S. Department of Defense secured an exposed server on Monday that was spilling internal U.S. military emails to th...
IT総合 How to keep your Twitter secure without giving Elon Musk any money
Late on Friday, Twitter announced a new policy that will remove text message two-factor authentication (2FA) from any ac...