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Amazon Settles Ring Customer Spying Complaint with $30.8 Million Payment Amazon-owned home security camera company Ring has agreed to pay $30.8 million to settle Ring and Alexa privacy complaints filed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on June 1, 2023. The FTC charged that Ring failed to implement basic protections to stop hackers or employees…
Amazon Ring Settles for $5.8 Million Over Lax Security The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reached a $5.8 million settlement with Amazon Ring, an American home security company owned by Amazon, over alleged violations of data security practices, according to a court complaint filed by the FTC. The commission argued that Ring failed to take essential…
Toyota Announces Another Data Breach Toyota Motor Corp. has recently announced that it has discovered another data breach, where two misconfigured cloud services were found leaking 260,000 car owners’ personal information over a seven-year period. This discovery comes after the car manufacturer conducted an investigation of its cloud features following the announcement earlier in the…
Using Data to Disrupt the Drug Trade on the Dark Web A new study published in the journal Information Systems Research provides evidence that selectively targeting large-scale drug vendors online could significantly reduce drug-dealing activities on the dark web. The research team analyzed data from three of the largest darknet markets to demonstrate the impact…
Salesforce “Ghost Sites” Risk Exposing Sensitive Corporate Data Salesforce is warning its customers against neglecting to deactivate their communities in the Salesforce environment before leaving the site as it risks exposing sensitive corporate information to potential cyber-attacks via “ghost sites.” Researchers from Varonis have discovered forgotten communities, or “ghost sites,” where customers had left their…
Spyware Found in 101 Android Applications on Google Play with Over 420 Million Downloads Antivirus company Doctor Web has identified spyware in more than 100 Android applications that had over 421 million cumulative downloads in Google Play. The company discovered a malicious module in these apps, which is distributed as a marketing software development kit…
Data Breaches Personal Information of 9 Million Individuals Stolen in MCNA Ransomware Attack Overview of the Incident MCNA, one of the largest dental benefits managers in the US, announced that it suffered a data breach earlier this year. This cyber-attack between February 26 and March 7 has compromised the personal information of around nine million…
Perimeter 81’s Network Security Platform: A Time-Saving Solution for IT Managers As organizations continue to transition to cloud-based solutions, the need for robust network security has become increasingly critical. Modern-day threats such as data breaches, security flaws, and SQL injections are just some of the vulnerabilities that put a company’s confidential data at risk. IT…
German Newspaper Receives Trove of Confidential Data from Tesla Whistleblowers The German newspaper Handelsblatt reported today that it has received a massive leak of confidential data from informants at Tesla. This dump contains 100GB of data, including more than 23,000 internal files spanning from 2015 to 2022. Among the many revelations in the documents are…
Data Breaches at Apria Healthcare Affect 2 Million Individuals One of the largest home medical equipment providers in the United States, Apria Healthcare, is currently notifying nearly two million individuals of compromised personal information in two data breaches that happened in 2019 and 2021, respectively. The Breach Details The company announced that it found out…