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ICANN Requests GDPR Exemption As It Develops Compliance Plans
Domain name registrars estimate parts of ICANN's still-unfinished plans could take 'years' to implement more ...
Hacked Credit Agency Equifax ‘Hit By Separate Intrusion In March’
The credit reporting giant was reportedly hit by a separate major breach in March, weeks before the theft of personal data on millions of people more ...
US Arrests Chinese Man For Multiple Cyber-Attacks
The 36-year-old was arrested in Los Angeles on hacking charges linked to the high-profile hacks of the US Office of Personnel Management and insurer Anthem more ...
‘Anonymous Hacker’ Claims To Have Stolen 11 Million NHS Records
The hack was carried out to warn patients that their personal data is being exposed, according to an alleged member of the Anonymous hacking group more ...
US Government Seeks Information On Thousands Of Protest Website Visitors
Dreamhost said it plans to fight a search warrant demanding information on a protest site, including the IP addresses of all 1.3 million visitors more ...
Amazon Hopes AWS Macie Machine Learning Tool Will Stem Cloud Data Loss
AWS SUMMIT: Amazon has released Macie, an AI-powered tool aimed at securing data held in the cloud, following a string of inadvertent data leaks more ...
Judge Tells LinkedIn It Cannot Stop Third Parties From Collecting Profile Data
LinkedIn must allow startup HiQ to collect data from public profiles in a case that tests how much control internet companies have over user data more ...
DefCon 2017: ‘Anonymous’ Browsing Data Easy To De-Anonymise
Researchers discovered the porn habits of a judge and the drug preferences of a German MP by viewing supposedly anonymised browsing records more ...
Ashley Madison Offers £8.5m To Data Breach Victims
The fund will be available for anyone with a "valid claim" for being affected by the 2015 breach more ...