A year after prematurely announcing that the United Kingdom’s cyber laws had been “updated,” the British government has missed what is likely to be its last opportunity to actually update the laws ...

Dallas County is in the process of reviewing information leaked by a ransomware gang claiming to have attacked the county last month. In a statement, Dallas County Judge Clay Lewis Jenkins told ...

The government council for Scotland’s Western Isles said it is dealing with an IT outage that forced it to provide temporary phone numbers for services. The Comhairle nan Eilean Siar — which governs ...

The criminal group behind the BlackMatter ransomware have announced plans today to shut down their operation, citing pressure from local authorities. The group announced its plan in a message posted ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is working on a proposed rule to rein in data brokers that could make it harder for ...

A recent data breach at the crypto payment processor Transak exposed the information of more than 92,000 people after an employee's laptop was accessed. The company said on Sunday that “no financially ...

Penn State University has been fined $1.25 million for failing to comply with cybersecurity requirements laid out in its contracts with federal agencies. The fine pertains to 15 different contracts ...

The British government introduced its new Data Use and Access Bill to Parliament on Wednesday, claiming the reforms to the country’s privacy regime could boost the economy by as much as £10 billion ...

More than $50 million worth of cryptocurrency was stolen from decentralized finance platform Radiant Capital on Wednesday evening. In a post-mortem report published on Thursday, Radiant said the ...

A European Commission-funded biometric “gait recognition” program to study how to more easily identify people crossing the European Union’s external borders by examining their unique walking styles ...

Ireland’s top privacy regulator on Thursday fined social media platform LinkedIn €310 million ($335 million) for allegedly using its members' data for advertising purposes without obtaining their ...

The British government is “considering all options” to strengthen its response to cyberthreats, according to a speech on Tuesday by the country’s security minister, Dan Jarvis. The speech is one of ...