Apr 02, 2024NewsroomBrowser Security / Data Security Google has agreed to purge billions of data records reflecting users’ browsing activities to settle a class action lawsuit that claimed the search giant tracked them without their knowledge or consent in its Chrome browser. The class action, filed in 2020, alleged the company misled users by tracking […]
The European Union (EU) has agreed new rules to strengthen cyber incident response and recovery across member states, which has been dubbed the ‘cyber solidarity act.’ The provisional regulation aims to make the EU more resilient and reactive to cyber threats via new cooperation mechanisms. This includes the establishment of an EU-wide cybersecurity alert system, […]
SentinelOne has agreed to acquire PingSafe. The acquisition of PingSafe’s cloud native application protection platform (CNAPP), when combined with SentinelOne’s cloud workload security and cloud data security capabilities, is expected to provide companies with a fully integrated platform that drives better coverage, hygiene and automation across their entire cloud footprint. The planned integration of PingSafe’s […]
Jan 02, 2024NewsroomData Privacy / Online Tracking Google has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed in June 2020 that alleged that the company misled users by tracking their surfing activity who thought that their internet use remained private when using the “incognito” or “private” mode on web browsers. The class-action lawsuit sought at least $5 […]
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agreed to a settlement of $480,000 with Louisiana-based medical group Lafourche Medical Group following a 2021 cyberattack that exposed the sensitive information of nearly 35,000 people. In addition to the monetary penalty, the company agreed to undergo periodic audits by HHS for two years. HHS noted […]
A Massachusetts-based medical management company has agreed to a $100,000 settlement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services following a 2017 ransomware attack. The company, Doctors’ Management Services — which provides medical billing and payer credentialing services — was attacked by the now-defunct GandCrab ransomware gang in April 2017, but the intrusion was […]
The fundraising software company Blackbaud agreed Thursday to pay $49.5 million to settle claims brought by the attorneys general of 49 states and Washington, D.C., related to a 2020 data breach that exposed sensitive information from 13,000 nonprofits. Health information, Social Security numbers and the financial information of donors or clients of the nonprofits, universities, […]
The European Parliament agreed on Tuesday to strengthen protections for journalists from government surveillance as part of the proposed European Media Freedoms Act. As originally proposed last September, the law would have prohibited surveilling journalists and their families — and banned the use of spyware to target their devices — except in the cases of […]
Search giant Google agreed to a $93 million settlement with the state of California on Thursday over its location-privacy practices. The settlement follows a $391.5 million settlement with 40 states, reached in November 2022, to resolve an investigation into how the company tracked users’ locations. The states’ investigation was sparked by a 2018 Associated Press […]
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