May 24, 2022 The Attorney General of the District of Columbia, Karl Racine, has sued Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg over the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal concerns Aleksandr Kogan, a University of Cambridge professor who more...
May 24, 2022 Meta has announced plans to make information about how political and "social issue" ads are targeted publicly available. Facebook had previously experimented with making some data available to researchers via FORT in 2021. The information more...
May 24, 2022 The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has fined facial recognition company Clearview AI more than 7.5 million euros. The ICO found that Clearview AI breached U.K. data protection laws by failing to use the information of more...
May 24, 2022 Cybercriminals use a fake chatbot via phishing to target unsuspecting victims with malware, according to a new report by Trustwave. The attack starts with a phishing email pretending to be from DHL. The email content more...
May 24, 2022 The share of young users who pick fintech over traditional banks has doubled since 2020, to 12%. Today, only 25% of the youngest generation, Gen Z use a megabank for their primary checking account, down from more...
May 24, 2022 Broadcom is negotiating a $60 billion acquisition of VMware. According to sources close to the issue, Broadcom will pay about $140 per share in cash and shares for VMware. If the negotiations prove successful, a more...
May 24, 2022 A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected much of Florida's social media law. Florida's social media law aims to prevent social media companies from restricting users' political speech. It more...
May 24, 2022 A small group of Activision Blizzard workers in Wisconsin voted to form a union, according to the US National Labor Relations Board NLRB. The group consisted of employees of the quality assurance department at Raven more...
May 24, 2022 Persistent inflation and market uncertainty have forced technology companies to suspend hiring. One of the technology companies affected, Salesforce, a cloud software company, will put on hold the hiring of certain open roles to control more...
May 20, 2022 Researchers have noticed an increase in vulnerabilities used in infiltrating organizations. According to cybersecurity firm Group-IB, the threat actors target remote desktop (RDP) servers that are exposed on the web for initial access into a more...
