The Department of Homeland Security has published a report detailing how the U.S. Secret Service plans to test the use of facial recognition in and around the White House. A published document explains that the Secret Service will test whether its system can identify certain...
Atrium Health revealed that the data of about 2.65 million patients may have been compromised in a breach at its third-party provider AccuDoc Solutions. The company, previously Carolinas HealthCare System, said that the data included addresses, dates of birth and social security numbers, according to Reuters. The...
Kaspersky Lab has announced the opening of its first Transparency Center, located in Zurich Switzerland. The Transparency Center will allow authorized partners to access reviews of a company’s code, software updates and threat detection rules, while governments and partners will be provided with information on...
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently called data privacy a “human right,” urging tech companies to do all they could to protect users from cyber threats. During a speech at the Microsoft Future Decoded conference in London, Nadella highlighted three major areas that all tech companies...
Tim Cook, the chief executive of Apple, is calling on the government in the U.S. to embrace privacy laws that are similar to the European Union. The Financial Times, citing comments Cook made during a speech in Brussels, reported Cook said it was time “for...
The nation’s second-largest health insurer will pay the government a record $16 million due to a data breach and cyberattack that exposed the customer data of nearly 80 million people. The settlement between Anthem Insurance and the Department of Health and Human Services represents the largest...
WhatsApp, the messaging app owned by Facebook, said on Wednesday (Oct. 10) that the bug that enabled hackers to take over apps when a user answered an incoming video call has been fixed. According to a Reuters report, WhatsApp’s comments that the problem is fixed...
The Israeli government is investing 90 million shekels ($24 million) to boost the country’s cybersecurity industry. The three-year program will enable companies working in high-risk research and development to possibly receive up to 5 million shekels a year. The program will also help fund pilot...
Semiconductor company Intel disclosed Tuesday (August 14) that it found three more potential flaws in its microprocessors that could enable hackers to get access to data residing in the computer memory. In a blog post, Intel said the flaw is found in its Core and...
