Honeywell Aerospace has agreed to pay more than $2 million to settle allegations that a business unit failed to meet cybersecurity requirements attached to a U.S. Department of Defense contract, turning what might otherwise have remained a problem of technical compliance into a False Claims Act case.
TikTok and its parent company ByteDance have agreed to pay $400 million to settle a U.S. government lawsuit alleging the platform collected personal information from millions of children without their parents' consent, according to BBC reporting, closing a case that began two years ago and adding another substantial figure to the growing cost of getting children's privacy wrong.
Ofcom has set out how it plans to enforce the UK’s Online Safety Act across more than 100,000 companies, detailing an approach that can begin with guidance and direct regulatory pressure but escalate to investigations, fines and, in certain cases, measures that disrupt a company’s business.
Manchester Airports Group said criminal hackers accessed data belonging to about 8.7 million customers in a cyberattack affecting systems used across Manchester, London Stansted and East Midlands airports, one of the largest breaches of customer information disclosed by a UK airport operator.
At one critical infrastructure organization, CISA’s red team got in and kept going. It compromised multiple workstations, elevated its privileges over the domain and began moving laterally into other systems and resources. The security operations center never detected it.
Uber’s software could cut a driver off from the platform for suspected fraud or poor customer ratings. What it did not necessarily do first was ask a person. That has now cost the company €824.99 million.
The Personal Information Protection Commission has opened a public consultation on an overhaul of the country’s privacy protection framework, a review prompted in part by the widening distance between rules built around consent and forms of data processing that have become considerably harder to explain, much less reduce to a series of yes-or-no decisions.