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Britain now has IoT hardware standards that ban weak or easily guessable default passwords such as “admin” or “12345." Manufacturers are also required to publish contact details so users can report bugs.

New mobile malware masquerading as a news app has been spotted targeting human rights activists associated with the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), a partially recognized state in the western part of the Sahara desert....

The top U.S. cybersecurity agency published a warning on Thursday morning about an attack on Sisense — which provides AI data analytics services to organizations like Philips Healthcare, Verizon, Nasdaq, Air Canada and hundreds more.

The software security nonprofit Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) said a possible data breach may affect anyone who was a member of the organization from 2006 to 2014.

China-backed hackers are increasingly targeting telecom carriers, internet providers and other critical infrastructure in Japan, according to Kazutaka Nakamizo, deputy director of the country’s National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity (NISC)....

Jak ogłosił we wtorek senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), polityczna organizacja pro-life uzyskała od brokera dane dotyczące lokalizacji telefonów komórkowych i wykorzystała je do kierowania reklam do osób, które odwiedziły 600 klinik aborcyjnych w całym kraju....

In a statement on Monday, the speaker of the Philippine’s House of Representatives, Martin Romualdez, said: “The revelation that hackers, suspected to be operating from China, have infiltrated the email systems and internal websites of various government agencies, is a matter of national security and public interest.”...

The issue affected Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), a system used to deploy, scale and manage how applications are “containerized.” GKE — the tech giant’s implementation of the open-source Kubernetes project — is used widely in healthcare, education, retail and financial services for data processing as well as...

3,000 keyboard warriors of the Eurozone

A federal judge on Tuesday refused to bring back a class action lawsuit alleging four auto manufacturers had violated Washington state’s privacy laws by using vehicles’ on-board infotainment systems to record and intercept customers’ private text messages and mobile phone call logs.