A press release from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) today: Today, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) unveiled the updated cyber incident reporting form, an enhanced web-enabled questionnaire available on CISA’s Incident Reporting Portal for reporting cyber incidents. By improving data quality, the more robust form strengthens the effectiveness and efficiency of...

Law professor and privacy law scholar Dan Solove has made two short essays available to everyone: The AI Inference Problem in Privacy Law AI inferences undermine privacy laws. Whether they recognize inferences or not, privacy laws are in a bind. Rethinking Privacy of the Mind:  Why Protecting Neural Data Is Insufficient Is protecting neural data...

Sergiu Gatlan reports: Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, has denied claims of a new security breach made by a threat actor using the ‘ShinyHunters’ handle on a newly emerged underground cybercrime forum. This follows the threat actor, believed to impersonate the ShinyHunters extortion gang, putting up for sale what they claimed were records of...

Seen on Epichealth: 4 November 2026 What has happened Epichealth operates four medical clinics including the Warrnambool Medicare Urgent Care Clinic,  Epichealth Ocean Grove Marketplace, Epichealth Ocean Plaza, and Epichealth Portarlington. Epichealth recently experienced a cyber incident, during which an unauthorised third party accessed a part of our IT systems. As soon we became aware...

Naomi Diaz reports: New York City-based Weill Cornell Medicine disclosed that patient health information was entered into AI tools and processed using machine learning without authorization as part of a radiology research study. Weill Cornell learned of the incident Sept. 6 and launched an investigation, which determined that certain patient information from Weill Cornell Imaging...

A breach involving a public figure prompted this press release from Italy’s data protection authority: Regarding the dissemination of personal data on the dark web relating to Vice President Antonio Tajani and his family members, the Italian Data Protection Authority warns media outlets, newspapers, websites, and platforms that the acquisition, dissemination, and republishing, by any...

Victor Tangermann reports: After decades of establishing itself as one of the worst guardians of personal data, Meta raised eyebrows this year by encouraging users to hand over their email logins and credit card information to its new AI agent, Muse. The tool, a privacy nightmare anthropomorphized by a furry apparition, can crawl through years...

Olivia DeRicco reports: Woodley, et al. v. Google LLC, et al. Filed: October 9, 2026 ◆ § 5:26-cv-11715 Read Complaint A class action lawsuit alleges Google and UPS wrongfully disclose users’ private data to third parties by way of the Google Search tracking widget. A proposed class action lawsuit alleges that the Google Search-based “Track...

Zach Weissmueller reports: The war against anonymity is raging in Europe. “The witch hunters work like a mob, and if enough of them phone the police, the police are going to come,” says Bernie Spofforth, a political activist who was detained by U.K. police for a social media post. It’s coming to the United States,...

From the “sounded-like-extortion-to-us department,” T. Keung Hui reports: Triangle school districts are trying to get more information about how they’ll be impacted by Google’s plan to change access to Google Search in schools. Google set off a firestorm this week when it initially announced that it would turn off access to Google Search for schools...

Zack Whittaker reports: Security researchers have discovered hundreds of copies of a Chinese-made AI hacking tool publicly exposed to the internet for anyone to access, potentially allowing outsiders to launch cyberattacks against unsuspecting targets. The hacking software, called Artex, is an open source autonomous penetration testing tool, meaning software that automatically probes computer systems for...

November 6, 2026 8:00 PM EST NEWTON, N.J., Nov. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Sussex County Prosecutor’s Office (SCPO) experienced a data privacy event that involved personal information. On or about August 10, 2026, SCPO received alerts of a disruption to its computer network. Upon this identification, it launched an immediate investigation and engaged outside cybersecurity...

Shmulik Cohen and Matan Giladi write: Apiiro research found 2,539 real secrets in 1,994 public GitHub repositories: database passwords, cloud keys, API tokens, SSH root logins. Among them: a database vendor’s own admin-level cloud key, a production Azure Postgres password, a Square production token, and the owner password of a medical-records database. 63 organizations, mostly...

From Norway’s aid agency, Norad, November 3: Norad has been targeted by a cyberattack in which the perpetrators may have gained access to the names and email addresses of 20,614 registered users of Norad’s Grant Portal. In addition, they extracted information related to grant applications submitted by at least three organizations. Norad is still working...

A press release from NYS Attorney General Letitia James: NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James and a coalition of three other attorneys general today secured $10 million from Perry Johnson & Associates, Inc. (PJ&A), Perry Johnson, Inc. (PJI), Perry Johnson & Associates Coding, Inc., Perry Johnson & Associates Radiology, Inc., and Medical...

Mark Rasch writes: Imagine a company gets hacked and hires a law firm to manage the response. The lawyers coordinate the forensic investigation, determine which notification laws apply, and advise management about what to disclose and when. Months later, the notices arrive. The affected individuals sue the company and add its lawyers as defendants. Their...

Robbie Meredith reports: Parents have been told to be alert for unexpected emails or phone calls after a Northern Ireland school app used by almost 50,000 people was affected by a data breach. The Equipple app is used by many schools to schedule and book meetings between parents and teachers. There have been concerns that...

Lawrence Abrams reports: DigiCert warns it suffered a data breach after a server migration mistakenly exposed an internal business system to the internet, allowing unauthorized access to customer information and identity documents. The certificate authority says the breach affected a small portion of its archived customer data, including names, business email addresses, phone numbers, and...

Ernestas Naprys reports: A massive decade-old flaw affects Alpine and other distributions that run OpenSSH on the musl library. Containers, routers, IoT devices, and other applications are critically vulnerable. Emergency updates are available. Any long password, between 257 and 1024 characters, unlocks thousands of Linux systems via SSH (Secure Shell), the industry standard for remote...

We missed posting this during Digital Parenting Week, but it is still excellent advice. On October 29, Paige Collins of EFF wrote: In today’s digital world, the internet is an essential resource for young people to access information, explore community, and find themselves. But we know that this often comes alongside fears of experiencing online...