Category: Security
Massachusetts votes to pass new privacy rights bill that bans sale of precise location data | TechCrunch
Massachusetts lawmakers have voted to pass privacy protections that grant the state’s residents new rights over accessing and...
Former cyber executive turned whistleblower accuses IBM of covering up several data breaches | TechCrunch
A former IBM cybersecurity executive accused the company of getting hacked three times in the previous decade by...
UK cops say arrest of two young hackers disrupted the operations of an infamous hacking group | TechCrunch
U.K. police said on Thursday that the jailing of two hackers has “severely” hampered the activities of the...
Period tracker Stardust shares users’ health data with analytics firm, says new research | TechCrunch
“Your data is private. Period,” says period tracker Stardust on its website. As new research by the Mozilla...
How a former DeepMind researcher raised at a $300M pre-seed valuation before launching a product | TechCrunch
Andrew Dai left Google DeepMind knowing visual AI was the frontier he wanted to stake his claim in....
US charges Russian ‘bulletproof’ web hosts over cyberattacks that netted $62M from cybercrime victims | TechCrunch
U.S. prosecutors have charged three Russian nationals and two web hosts with hacking, conspiracy, and money laundering over...
Telegram’s shortlink domain is back online after day-long suspension | TechCrunch
A domain used by the messaging app Telegram mysteriously dropped offline on Monday, with the app’s founder, Pavel...
US cybersecurity agency CISA had to build its incident playbook during the incident, agency reveals | TechCrunch
U.S. federal cybersecurity agency CISA said it did not have a prepared response plan for how it should...
Florida ransomware negotiator convicted for helping ransomware gang extort US companies | TechCrunch
Florida man Angelo Martino has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for conspiring with hackers...
Another massive data breach exposed millions of driver’s license numbers | TechCrunch
U.S. insurance provider AssuranceAmerica has confirmed a data breach affecting the personal information and driver’s license numbers of...
