CPO Magazine (or Chief Privacy Officer Magazine) provides news, insights and resources for data protection, privacy and cyber security leaders.

Nov 22, 2024 · Halliburton is an energy industry service provider for oil and gas exploration, development, and production. Present in over 70 countries, the energy sector service giant employs over 45,000 people and reports over $20 billion in annual revenue.

Dec 2, 2022 · Organizations now have massive volumes of data about their customers, clients, suppliers, patients, workers, and other stakeholders. Data governance will guarantee that your data is trustworthy, well-documented, easy to discover and …

Jan 9, 2025 · Cyberhaven listed the indicators of compromise (IOCs) to assist potential victims in determining if they have been compromised. They include the presence of Chrome extensions’ local storage keys ‘Extensionname_ext_manage’ and ‘Extensionname__ext_log’ in …

Dec 30, 2024 · The company has consistently defended its actions by claiming it only sells its product to legitimate law enforcement and anti-terrorist agencies, and that it screens out dictatorships or authoritarian governments that might use it …

Jan 10, 2025 · The WSJ report cites insider sources in naming Charter Communications, Consolidated Communications and Windstream among the breached parties. The sources also state that the Salt Typhoon campaign may have started in late 2023, months earlier than public statements from the FBI and CISA have previously indicated.

Oct 23, 2024 · Cisco data breach impacts major corporations. The threat actor claims that the Cisco data breach impacts hundreds of high-profile corporations including AT&T US and Mexico, Verizon, T-Mobile USA and Poland, British Telecom, Chevron, Microsoft, Vodafone, SAP, Bank of America, and Barclays.

Jul 18, 2023 · Mini programs have opaque data policies. Most of the trouble in the WeChat ecosystem originates when users download mini programs. WeChat facilitates access to assorted sensitive device operating system functions, in addition to providing the developer access to user contact and stored payment information.

Dec 30, 2024 · Old privacy breaches continue to haunt Meta. The Irish DPC seems to finally be clearing out a backlog of privacy breach complaints against Meta and its associated companies, with the agency also reaching a decision in September that delivered a €91 million GDPR fine to the company over a failure to adequately protect user passwords in 2019.

Dec 1, 2022 · Group-IB discovered nearly three dozen groups of Russian hackers spreading infostealer malware under the stealer-as-a-service model. An infostealer is a malware variant that harvests credentials stored in browsers, payment card numbers, and crypto wallet credentials and sends them to threat actor-controlled servers.