The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is working on a proposed rule to rein in data brokers that could make it harder for ...

Canada’s largest public library system said it is dealing with a cyberattack that brought down its website, member services pages and limited access to its digital collections. The Toronto Public ...

The FCC’s top privacy cop on how the agency views its data protection mission ...

The criminal group behind the BlackMatter ransomware have announced plans today to shut down their operation, citing pressure from local authorities. The group announced its plan in a message posted ...

The National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) has suffered what two sources have described to The Record as a "destructive" cyberattack. The incident, which took place on the night between Friday and Saturday, ...

OpenSSL released patches for two vulnerabilities that have caused widespread concern among cybersecurity experts and researchers over the last week and a half. OpenSSL is a commonly used code library ...

Hong Kong police have arrested 27 people for allegedly carrying out romance scams using deepfake face-swapping technology that swindled victims out of $46 million. The syndicate operated out of a ...

The popular WordPress plugin Jetpack has released a critical security update, addressing a vulnerability that could have affected 27 million websites. The flaw was found in the plugin’s contact form ...

The United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has “already responded to 50% more nationally significant incidents compared to last year,” its new chief executive announced on Wednesday.

A European Commission-funded biometric “gait recognition” program to study how to more easily identify people crossing the European Union’s external borders by examining their unique walking styles ...

The Russian military prosecutor's office is reportedly pushing for prison sentences of up to 6.5 years for four people linked to the hacking group REvil. The Russian cybercrime group was one of the ...

A recent data breach at the crypto payment processor Transak exposed the information of more than 92,000 people after an employee's laptop was accessed. The company said on Sunday that “no financially ...