A leading technology industry association has sued Texas, seeking to block a state law that requires app stores to verify user ages to purchase and download apps.
Authorities raided a "SIM farm" operation that used tens of thousands of cards to enable fraud in several European countries, including Latvia and Austria.
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The Dairy Farmers of America said cybercriminals breached company systems in June, gaining access to the information of employees and members of the cooperative.
Under the new partnership, law enforcement agencies which use Flock Safety products can ask Ring owners to provide images for βevidence collection and investigative work,β according to a blog post on the Ring website.
Hackers are also increasingly turning to other methods to obtain credentials. Microsoft tracked surges in the use of infostealer malware by criminals and an increase of IT scams where cybercriminals call a companyβs help desk and simply ask for password resets.
A German member of the European Parliament has filed a complaint urging authorities to investigate Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor OrbΓ‘n for allegedly ordering the countryβs secret service to break into his phone with spyware.
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The Florida attorney general's office sued the smart television company Roku for collecting and selling childrenβs sensitive data, including information showing precise geolocation, without notice and parental consent.
California's governor signed a bill that requires chatbot operators to set up a system to prevent suicidal ideation β an issue that several federal lawmakers have also focused on in recent months.
Taiwanβs National Security Bureau says network intrusions and influence operations by China have increased this year, with critical infrastructure drawing the most attention.
Army Lt. Gen. William Hartman, the acting leader of U.S. Cyber Command and the NSA, will not be nominated to take the job permanently, sources told Recorded Future News.
Prosecutors are seeking a seven-year prison sentence for the Massachusetts man who pleaded guilty to hacking into the education technology company PowerSchool's databases.
As part of its plan to extort high-profile customers of Salesforce, the Scattered Spider group had revived the BreachForums platform. The site now bears an FBI seizure notice.
Austria's data protection authority ruled that Microsoft illegally tracked students using its education software by failing to give them access to their data and using cookies without consent.
A phishing campaign is gaining access to universities' third-party platforms and routing employee paychecks to accounts controlled by hackers, researchers said.
Companies that are still sharing threat information with the government despite the lapse of the law known as CISA 2015 should be protected retroactively when Congress revives that authority, Sen. Gary Peters says.