- T-Mobile Sued Over Theft Of Sensitive Data
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, August 20, 2021
"T-Mobile knew its systems were vulnerable to attack. Yet it failed to implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the information," three consumers alle ...
- T-Mobile Hack Spurs Call For Crackdown On Data Retention
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, August 18, 2021
T-Mobile's widely publicized data breach involving the theft of Social Security numbers, birth dates and other sensitive information is raising new concerns about companies' data-retention practices. ...
- Twitter Launches Competition To Search For Bias In Algorithm
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, August 2, 2021
Twitter last week launched a competition for computer researchers and hackers to identify biases in its image-cropping algorithm, after a group of researchers found the algorithm tended to exclude Bla ...
- Microsoft 365 Security Setting Hacked By Bad Actors
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, July 21, 2021
A Microsoft 365 security setting has been hacked by malicious actors who are using it to launch automating phishing attacks. The co-opting was discovered by email security company
Vade. ...
- When Will Attacks On Media Become A Big Deal?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, June 8, 2021
Cox Media Group -- which owns 57 U.S. radio and TV stations -- apparently has been hacked. ...
- Supreme Court Pares Back Anti-Hacking Law
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, June 3, 2021
In a closely watched case, the Supreme Court Thursday voted 6-3 to narrow the scope of a 1980s-era anti-hacking law. ...
- Security Firm Gains Funding Just As Microsoft Reports Another Massive Email Attack
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, May 28, 2021
The state-supported attack appears to be focused on critics of Russian leader Vladimir Putin. ...
- Microsoft Reports Another Hack, Threat To Future Of Email Advertising
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, May 28, 2021
Microsoft today reported yet another large-scale email system hack. This attack comes on the heels of several other breaches including SolarWinds, Ubiquiti, and the Colonial Pipeline. ...
- Hackers Impersonate Bloomberg Employees
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Thursday, April 22, 2021
Hackers are posing as Bloomberg employees in a new email attempt to install remote access software on target computers. The effort has gone beyond bumbling emails in broken
English. ...
- Facebook Hacked, Zuckerberg's Phone Number Leaked To Web
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, April 5, 2021
A hacker on Saturday published the phone numbers and personal data of Facebook users, exposing personal information of more than 533 million users from 106 countries, including over 32 milli ...
- White House Is Concerned As Microsoft Email Breach Spreads
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, March 5, 2021
A hack of Microsoft's email server was apparently caused by China-based hackers and is being monitored by the White House even as it spreads to Europe. Microsoft attributes the atta ...
- COMB Said To Be The Biggest Data Breach Of All Time
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Friday, February 12, 2021
Billions of email addresses and password combinations have been leaked in the Compilation of All Breaches (COMB), comprising a gargantuan file for hackers. Most internet users have probably been exposed.&nbs ...
- YouTube Security Flaw Exposes Data
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, January 20, 2021
The flaw gave hackers a way to access data and would have allowed them to steal the watch history and data from public and private videos of users who open ...
- Google, Microsoft, Cisco And Others Back Facebook's NSO Lawsuit
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, December 21, 2020
NSO Group Technologies allegedly "impersonated Facebook as part of a ploy to get users to install its phone-hacking software." Google and Microsoft, along with other tech giants, have joined Facebook ...
- Ledger Cryptocurrency Wallet Users Hit With Data Leak
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, December 21, 2020
The company acknowledges that over 1 million email addresses were exposed, along with other information. ...
- 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 ...
