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The White House released a reformed National Cyber Strategy on March 2nd to combat the rise in cyberattacks ravaging health, federal, and private infrastructure across the United States. The cyberspace defense plan aims to pin the responsibility of online protection on private companies rather than

The United States Marshals Service (USMS) has suffered a serious ransomware attack that compromised sensitive data. This included law enforcement documents and personal information belonging to employees and the targets of federal investigations. On Monday, February 27th, Drew Wade, a

Last week, Texas Republican state representative, Steve Toth, introduced a bill that would require internet service providers to block access to “information or material intended to assist or facilitate efforts to obtain an elective abortion or an abortion-inducing drug.” ISPs would be forced to

On February 27th, Australian government officials conducted a “Cyber Security Roundtable” meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, in a bid to counter the growing threat of cyberattacks. Within the meeting, the continued development of a new “National Cyber Security Strategy” was

Canada has become the latest country to ban TikTok, the popular China-based social media app, on all government-issued devices. On Monday, February 27th, the President of the Treasury Board, Mona Fortier, issued a statement alleging that TikTok "presents an unacceptable level of risk to privacy

According to a recent study by Joanne Kim, a researcher at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy, data brokers are selling Americans' mental health data to third parties, including employers, insurance companies, and marketing firms. According to the report, 26 companies replied to a

On Monday, the US Department of Defense (DoD) took action to secure an unprotected server that had been leaking confidential U.S. military emails onto the open internet for the past two weeks. The unprotected server hosted on Microsoft's Azure specialized government cloud was part of a mailbox

A study by Mozilla Foundation has reportedly revealed "significant discrepancies" in data safety labels on the Google Play Store. Almost 80% of the 40 apps tested, including Twitter, TikTok, and Facebook, offer inaccurate and misleading details about how user data is shared. The report

Reddit is under pressure from film studios to reveal the identities of nine users who discussed piracy to assist in an ongoing lawsuit against the cable Internet provider RCN. It is alleged that these users spoke about RCN’s “lax” policy in regards to terminating repeat copyright

Hackers have gained and released data center login credentials of more than 2,000 businesses, including Fortune 500 companies like Walmart, Apple, and Amazon. This allowed hackers to masquerade as authorized users on the customer support sites for these data centers. According to the report from