- How Increases In Online Ad Spend Lead To Record Cybercrime
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, December 1, 2020
A study by McAfee and 3Gem found 34% of respondents have been victims of online scams in the holiday season, revealing how shifts in shopping activity expose consumers to n ...
- Facebook Data Breach Settlement Moves Forward
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, November 17, 2020
A federal judge has granted preliminary approval to Facebook's settlement of a class-action lawsuit over a security lapse that enabled hackers to steal 30 million users' information. ...
- Google Shares Update On Hacker Attacks
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, October 19, 2020
Google disclosed that in September it began to see multiple North Korea groups shifting their targeting hacks toward COVID-19 researchers and pharmaceutical companies, including those based in South Korea. "One campai ...
- SendGrid Hit With Account Takeovers, Passwords Sold To Spammers: Report
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, August 28, 2020
Twilio is working on requiring two-factor authentication for customer accounts, the company says. ...
- Google Fixes Major Gmail Bug
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, August 20, 2020
Gmail users might have noticed something wonky about their email accounts yesterday. Google on Wednesday patched a major security bug impacting the Gmail and G Suite email servers. The bug cou ...
- Amazon Alexa Skills Found To Leak Banking History, User Names, Phone Numbers
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, August 14, 2020
The report should make marketers and developers who create skills for voice assistants aware of the vulnerability that could tarnish brands' reputation. ...
- Twitter Questioned By Lawmaker Over 'Cavalier' Security Practices
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, August 12, 2020
"Though the sheer number of security breaches of high-profile Twitter accounts is astonishing, perhaps more astonishing is the relative unsophisticated nature of each breach," Rep. James Comer says in ...
- Twitter Urged To Beef Up Encryption
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 17, 2020
The digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation and Sen. Ron Wyden are among those urging Twitter to protect direct messages with end-to-end encryption. ...
- Walmart Hit With CCPA Lawsuit Over Alleged Data Breach
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, July 14, 2020
A San Francisco resident who says his personal data was stolen from Walmart by hackers is suing the company for allegedly violating California's new privacy law. ...
- Salesforce And Hanna Andersson To Settle Data Breach Lawsuit
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, July 13, 2020
If the settlement is finalized, it will resolve one of the first lawsuits in California to allege a violation of the state's new Consumer Privacy Act. ...
- Supreme Court Urged To Limit Anti-Hacking Law
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 10, 2020
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Mozilla and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are among a broad array of watchdogs and outside companies asking the Supreme Court to lim ...
- Which? Calls On Social Media To Tackle Fraud and Scams
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Thursday, April 30, 2020
Which? is calling on Facebook and Twitter to do more to tackle fraud and cyber crime after the consumer rights organisation found personal details for hacked identities available for sa ...
- Supreme Court Asks hiQ To Respond In Battle Over Data Scraping
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, April 27, 2020
The Supreme Court wants analytics company hiQ to respond to LinkedIn's request to intervene in a three-year-old battle over whether hiQ violates an anti-hacking law by scraping data about Linked ...
- Italian Email Provider Hacked: Report
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, April 23, 2020
Data from users of Email.it is now being offered for bitcoin on the dark web. ...
- Google: Fast-Food Franchises Become Phishing Lures In COVID-19 Scams
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Phishing lures using American fast-food franchises and COVID-19 messaging are being used to target personal accounts of U.S. government employees. Google's Threat Analysis Group released a report Wednesday detailing t ...
- Supreme Court To Hear Appeal Over Scope Of Anti-Hacking Law
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, April 20, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take up a battle over a 1986 anti-hacking law at the center of several high-profile Silicon Valley disputes, including a fight between soci ...
- 4 Questions Marketing Should Have Asked IT At Cathay Pacific (And Virgin Media)
London Blog, Sean Hargrave - Friday, March 6, 2020
The airline is a laughing stock over its lack of protection -- but Virgin Media didn't even bother with any security. ...
- Boots Suspends Use Of Its Advantage Loyalty Card
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Thursday, March 5, 2020
The BBC is reporting on a CRM nightmare for Boots, which has had to suspend use of its Advantage loyalty card after it emerged that hackers have been trying ...
- Cathay Pacific Fined GBP500,000 For Data Security Breach
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Thursday, March 5, 2020
The BBC reports Cathay Pacific has been fined GBP500,000 by the ICO for not putting sufficient security in place to prevent the theft of personal information belonging to more th ...
- Rail Travellers Have Had Data Compromised After Using Wi-Fi
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Rail travellers who use free station Wifi have had their personal information compromised, the BBC reports. Data from more than 10,000 people has been found to be available on t ...
- Google Researchers Say Workarounds Fail To Fix Underlying Problems In Apple Safari ITP
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, January 24, 2020
Google Security Engineering researchers detailed several data leak issues in Apple's Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) technology, which aims to restrict cookies from sharing data and browsing habits in the Safa ...
- Google Latest Desktop Change Blurring Lines Between Organic And Advertisements
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, January 23, 2020
Google has begun to make ads look more like organic results, according to some critics, and they're not happy with the change. The new design rolled out earlier this mon ...
- Dixons Carphone Fined Over Hack Attack
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Friday, January 10, 2020
The ICO has fined Dixons Carphone GBP500,000 after hackers compromised personal information to millions of its customers. "Sky News" reveals the company is set to appeal against some of t ...
- Special Olympics Email Hacked, Phishing Campaign Launched
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, January 3, 2020
The phishing email stated that $1,942.49 was about to be debited from the victim's account, a report states. ...
- Facebook Sues Alleged Distributor Of Ad-Serving Malware
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, December 5, 2019
Facebook on Thursday sued a Hong Kong company that allegedly duped web users into installing malware that not only took over people's Facebook accounts, but then served ads from tho ...
- Major Vulnerability Found In Google, Samsung Phones: Lets Hackers Take Pictures, Record Voices
Digital News Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, November 20, 2019
The vulnerability, which lets hackers take pictures and listen in on conversations, has the potential to impact hundreds of millions of Android users. ...
- Disney+ May Not Have Been Hacked, But There's Still A Problem (And Not Just For Disney)
Video Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, November 19, 2019
The real problem may be mostly a password security issue that is partly users' fault, say experts, but streaming services will need to take their own steps and grapple wi ...
- Hacking Group Takes Responsibility For Labour Party Attack
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Monday, November 18, 2019
The Independent claims to have been in contact with the group of hackers, known as Lizard Squad, who claim to have been behind the DDoS attack on the Labour Par ...
- LinkedIn Must Allow Scraping By HiQ, Court Confirms
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, November 11, 2019
Unless the Supreme Court intervenes, LinkedIn must allow hiQ -- and potentially other analytics companies -- to scrape information about users, including material that users posted but directed LinkedIn ...
- Russian Hackers Hid The Tracks By Pretending To Be Iranian
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Monday, October 21, 2019
Russian hackers got into Iranian servers to make their attacks on organisations in 35 countries to hide the true origin of their crimes in 35 countries, "The Telegraph" reports. ...
