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As it moves into the final stretch of its regular season, the National Basketball Association said over the weekend that "an unauthorized third party" netted a database filled with the names and email addresses of fans.The data was housed by a newsletter service that it partners with, the NBA noted in a letter to those affected - an all-too-common instance of the risk that third-party vendors can represent for organizations if their security isn't properly vetted.

"[N]o legacy is so rich as honesty" 1 might fairly summarize the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)'s theme to the advertising industry for 2023, as gleaned from the National Advertising Division (NAD) 2022 Annual Report."FTC leadership," the NAD Report elaborates, "sent a consistent, strong message that national advertisers should take a hard look at their own advertising" to create marketing from a consumer protection and truth-in-advertising standpoint.

Cryptocurrency ATM manufacturer General Bytes over the weekend disclosed a security incident that resulted in the theft of millions of dollars' worth of funds.The attackers, the company says, exploited a vulnerability in the master service interface that Bitcoin ATMs use to upload videos, which allowed them to upload a JavaScript script and execute it with batm user privileges.

A U.S. and Greek national who worked on Meta's security and trust team while based in Greece was placed under a yearlong wiretap by the Greek national intelligence service and hacked with a powerful cyberespionage tool, according to documents obtained by The New York Times and officials with knowledge of the case.

In the wake of a ban imposed on the use of social media platform TikTok on devices owned by the UK government last week, it has emerged that the BBC is among a growing number of organisations also imposing a crackdown on its use.In internal email messages shared on Twitter, the corporation said it had conducted its own review of activity on TikTok and concluded that it could not recommend installing the app on a BBC corporate device without a "justified business reason".

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is notifying individuals that their personal data was stolen in a data breach at a third-party service provider.Last week, the NBA started sending out notification emails to an unknown number of individuals, to inform them that their information was compromised in a data breach at a third-party provider of newsletter services.

Sustainable energy giant Hitachi Energy has blamed a data breach affecting employees on the exploitation of a recently disclosed zero-day vulnerability in Fortra's GoAnywhere managed file transfer (MFT) software.In a press release published on Friday, Hitachi Energy said the Cl0p ransomware gang targeted the GoAnywhere product and may have gained unauthorized access to employee data in some countries.

We may earn an affiliate commission from partner links on the Entrepreneur Guide.These do not affect our editors' opinions.You will need a reliable VPN service if you want to make a secure and private transaction or use a foreign website.Read on to learn more about some of the best VPN services of 2023.

A New York man accused of running the popular cybercrime forum BreachForums was arrested and charged last week.He is believed to be Pompompurin, an individual whose online moniker was mentioned in several high-profile hacking stories in the past years.The suspect is 21-year-old Conor Brian Fitzpatrick of Peekskill, New York.

Banning TikTok won't keep us safe.As you may have heard, the United States government is in the midst of a full-on panic about TikTok, the Chinese-owned video app best known for its ability to inspire teens to try out new dance moves.Last week, the White House reportedly demanded that TikTok's owners sell or face a ban.

Since the dawn of internet commerce, online marketing has been driven by the ability to freely use third-party cookies for user analytics, cross-site/behavioral targeting, retargeting and any other sort of data-driven advertising.Marketing attribution has also been heavily reliant on access to limitless consumer data.