Acting U.S. Deputy Attorney General John Carlin announced the Department of Justice established a task force to address ransomware attacks, The Wall Street Journal reports. In a memorandum circulated within the DOJ, Carlin said the increasing prevalence of ransomware "jeopardizes the safety and heal...

The Central Bank of Brazil adopted data protection provisions into its rules for open banking, ZDNet reports. A recent resolution amended five articles within the existing rules to include new measures involving account holder data-sharing consent and control over the right to correct or update data...

The Council of the European Union announced it voted to approve the establishment of the European Cybersecurity Competence Centre in Bucharest, Romania. Mariana Vieira da Silva, Portuguese minister of state for the presidency of the council, said the center "will play a key role in helping secure th...

A biometric cellphone registry faces a legal hurdle after a provisional measure by a judge in Mexico, Reuters reports. Second District Judge Juan Pablo Gomez Fierro blocked part of the Federal Telecommunications and Broadcasting Law that would require cellphone users to submit data to telecom provid...

The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology published a report summarizing its key takeaways from its workshop on household Internet of Things devices. The virtual workshop offered an overview of NIST’s Cybersecurity for IoT Program with panels considering and debating the many considera...