Google is breaking EU law by sending users of its email service Gmail direct advertising messages, activists said in a complaint sent to French regulators on Wednesday.
It is the latest in a long line of complaints filed by the activist group NOYB (None of Your Business), which has fought the tech giant for years on data privacy.
Popular streaming media platform Plex is scrambling to reset user passwords after a database hack that included the theft of emails, usernames, and encrypted passwords.
A class action lawsuit filed against Oracle on Friday in the Northern District of California claims that the tech giant has built a worldwide surveillance machine.
Virtualization technology software giant VMware on Tuesday released patches to fix an important-severity security flaw in the VMware Tools suite of utilities.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-31676, could be exploited by attackers to escalate privileges on a compromised system.
Healthcare services provider Novant Health has sent notifications to more than 1.3 million individuals that their protected health information (PHI) might have been inadvertently exposed to Facebook parent company Meta.
A researcher has conducted an analysis to see how major companies could track user activity through their mobile in-app browsers, and released a free and open source tool that allows anyone to check what code is being injected by such browsers.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has raised an alarm for cybercriminals using proxies and configurations to hide and automate credential stuffing attacks against companies in the United States.
TXOne Networks, a joint venture between cybersecurity firm Trend Micro and industrial networking solutions provider Moxa, has banked $70 million in new venture capital funding.
The company, which maintains dual headquarters in Texas and Taiwan, said the Series B round was led by TGVest Capital and brings the total raised to $94 million.
Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative, a major player in the vulnerability disclosure ecosystem, is ramping up the pressure on software vendors that consistently ship faulty security patches.
Whether it’s the fitness tracker on your wrist, the “smart” home appliances in your house or the latest kids’ fad going viral in online videos, they all produce a trove of personal data for big tech companies.
