Privacy professionals

Privacy professionals

The Board of the Python Software Foundation has resolved to amend the Bylaws, effective July 23, 2025, to remove a condition preventing compliance with data privacy laws.

The bodyguards revealed the prime minister's location and routes through their uploads on Strava, making sensitive information accessible to the public.

We both believe that privacy is fundamental and it's an important problem that the industry needs to solve. That's the bottom line.

The Geco color picker extension, while appearing safe and helpful, hijacks browser sessions, tracks user activities, and backdoors victims' web browsers, highlighting significant security concerns.

Consumers in Ireland are facing confusion as legitimate text messages are being flagged as scams under the new ComReg scheme. Patients receive 'likely scam' notifications for appointments, despite hospitals being verified.

Guo's complaint alleges that the defendants unlawfully attempted to collect an invalid debt and inaccurately reported information to credit agencies, impacting her credit.

For the first time this year, Microsoft has released a Patch Tuesday bundle with no exploited security problems, although one has been made public. July's software flaw fix package includes 130 patches with one earning a CVSS score of over nine - CVE-2025-47981, which breaks SPNEGO security protocols with a heap-based buffer overflow that allows remote code execution. The other nine critical issues include four in Office, where four flaws allow for remote code execution.

"Using works to train LLMs was transformative - spectacularly so," Anthropic said in a statement, quoting the court's opinion.

The legislation allows for the extradition of Zambians abroad, and stiff penalties, from fines to prison sentences potentially two to 25 years depending on the specific offense committed.

Genevieve Stark, head of cybercrime analysis at Google Threat Intelligence Group, noted that "instability within the extortion ecosystem can have serious implications for ransomware and data theft extortion victims."

"I got really good at buying drugs," she says with a laugh. "So I was recruited by the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office, Bureau of Narcotics and spent the last 10 years of my law enforcement career there."

Sixty-four percent of managers reported using AI tools at work, with 94% of those stating that their usage extends to decisions about direct reports.

A poll showed that 64% of respondents do not agree that owners of 'dodgy boxes' should face fines or prosecution, while 18% support prosecution.

When storing or moving sensitive documents, using secure packaging is crucial. Security envelopes with tamper-evident seals ensure privacy and maintain the integrity of the paperwork.

Cloud outsourcing doesn't eliminate risk; it simply shares it with the provider. The shared responsibility model of cloud governance clarifies certain aspects of risk management.

Dozens of CEOs have called on the European Commission to pause the EU AI Act, urging a two-year 'clock stop' to address potential problems with the law.

Cisco has released patches for a maximum-severity security flaw in Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM) and Unified Communications Manager Session Management Edition (Unified CM SME). The vulnerability, CVE-2025-20309, carries a CVSS score of 10.0, allowing an attacker to log in using the root account with static credentials that cannot be changed. Cisco advises users to upgrade to the latest version or apply the CSCwp27755 patch as there are no workarounds.

Researchers found that verified extensions in Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, and IntelliJ IDEA can retain their checkmark after being modified, allowing malicious versions to maintain trusted status.

Cloudflare's new tool empowers publishers to effectively block AI crawlers at the click of a button, marking a significant victory in their battle against content theft.

A hacker breached Columbia University's computer systems in late June, stealing students' data to support a political agenda, causing a significant outage.

The lawyer Mark Neenan stated that the treatment of bereaved families by Air India could potentially save the airline at least £100 million by under-compensating them.

Healthline Media LLC will pay $1.55 million in penalties for privacy violations under a pending settlement with California Attorney General Rob Bonta. The settlement is the largest for violations under the California Consumer Privacy Act. The website publisher did not allow consumers to opt out of targeted advertising, and it shared data without proper protections.