The assessment, which GAO began at the end of last year, also found that many State Department posts lack not only a chief information security officer, but any cybersecurity personnel whatsoever.

The Online Safety Bill, the United Kingdom’s landmark effort to regulate social media giants, gives regulator Ofcom the power to require tech companies to identify child sex abuse material in private messages.

While much of the cybersecurity world’s attention is on fending off Russian hacks against Ukraine, American officials are increasingly worried about another growing threat: attacks by China on U.S. soil.

Public authorities in the Netherlands are being told to steer clear of TikTok amid growing concerns across the EU and U.S. that the Chinese-owned video-sharing platform poses privacy risks.

Cybercriminal groups are abandoning rules that governed dark web marketplaces and using their malware to go after more sensitive computing systems connected to critical infrastructure and government services of the countries they deem enemies.

France’s influential data protection authority CNIL is telling football fans how they should protect themselves from the Qatar World Cup apps’ snooping, including the use of burner phones.

Manufacturers of digitally connected products would have to meet new EU requirements, whether the products are produced in the EU or not. The act would ensure products carrying the CE marking meet a minimum level of cybersecurity checks.

Albania was hit by cyberattacks earlier this year so debilitating that the government considered invoking a NATO declaration that could have pulled all member states into confrontation with Iran, Prime Minister Edi Rama said.

Due to its shoestring budget, the HHS Office for Civil Rights has fewer investigators than many local police departments, and its investigators have to deal with more than a hundred cases at a time.

The email accounts were not fully infiltrated and hackers had no direct access, the spokesperson said, adding that only the communication of compromised accounts was automatically forwarded.