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Amazon Redshift gets new default settings to prevent data breaches
Amazon has announced key security enhancements for Redshift, a popular data warehousing solution, to help prevent data exposures due to misconfigurations and insecure default settings. Redshift is widely used by enterprises for business intelligence and big data analytics for data warehousing, competing with Google BigQuery, Snowflake, and Azure Synapse Analytics. It’s valued for its petabyte-scale […]
TikTok shuts down in the US as Trump throws the company a lifeline
TikTok shut down in the U.S. late Saturday night following the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the law that banned the company over national security concerns. However, the ban may be shortlived as Trump announced today that he would issue an executive order when he takes office on Monday to give TikTok an additional 90 […]
CISA proposes new security requirements to protect govt, personal data
The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is proposing security requirements to prevent adversary states from accessing American’s personal data as well as government-related information. The requirements are aimed at entities that engage in restricted transactions that involve bulk U.S. sensitive personal data or U.S. government-related data, especially if the info is exposed to “countries […]
Audit finds notable security gaps in FBI’s storage media management
An audit from the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) identified “significant weaknesses” in FBI’s inventory management and disposal of electronic storage media containing sensitive and classified information. The report highlights multiple issues with policies and procedures or controls for tracking storage media extracted from devices, and significant physical security gaps in the […]
Verizon to pay $16 million in TracFone data breach settlement
Verizon Communications has agreed to pay a $16,000,000 settlement with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the U.S. concerning three data breach incidents at its wholly-owned subsidiary, TracFone Wireless, suffered after its acquisition in 2021. TracFone is a telecommunications service provider offering services through Total by Verizon Wireless, Straight Talk, and Walmart Family Mobile, among […]
Meta’s ‘Pay or Consent’ Data Model Breaches EU Law
Regulators say the tech giant breached the Digital Markets Act in requiring Instagram and Facebook users to pay if they don’t want personal data used to generate targeted ads. European Union regulators have accused Meta of breaching the bloc’s stringent new competition rules by compelling users of Instagram and Facebook to pay to avoid having […]