23 Jan

India floats plan to make big tech pay for news, walks back government censorship

Asia In Brief India’s IT minister has signaled he is willing to revisit a proposal to use government fact checkers to decide what is fake

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20 Jan

Ireland’s privacy watchdog fines WhatsApp €5.5 million

Ireland’s data protection authority has fined WhatsApp Ireland €5.5 million for breaches of the GDPR relating to its service and told it comply with data

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20 Jan

Ireland’s data protection watchdog fines WhatsApp €5.5 million

Ireland’s data protection authority has fined WhatsApp Ireland €5.5 million for breaches of the GDPR relating to its service and told it comply with data

Author rabih
20 Jan

Protecting the Universal Remote Control of Your Life—Your Smartphone

Aside from using it for calls and texting, we use our smartphones for plenty of things. We’re sending money with payment apps. We’re doing our

Author rabih
20 Jan

Miscreants sure do love ransacking cloud networks, more so than before

As enterprises around the world continue to move to the cloud, cybercriminals are following right behind them. There was a 48 percent year-over-year jump in

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20 Jan

Happy Lunar New Year: Beijing warns of enhanced surveillance during celebrations

The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has preempted celebrations for Lunar New Year – the Year of the Rabbit* commences on January 22 – by

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20 Jan

Crims steal data on 40 million T-Mobile US customers

T-Mobile US today said someone abused an API to download the personal information of 37 million subscribers. A regulatory filing [PDF] disclosed one or more

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19 Jan

PayPal says crooks poked around 35,000 accounts in credential stuffing attack

The personal information of 35,000 PayPal users was exposed in December, according to a notification letter sent to the online payment company’s customers this week.

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19 Jan

PayPal says crooks accessed 35,000 customers’ info in credential stuffing attack

The personal information of 35,000 PayPal users was exposed in December, according to a notification letter sent to the online payment company’s customers this week.

Author rabih
19 Jan

Finally, ransomware victims are refusing to pay up

The amount of money paid to ransomware attackers dropped significantly in 2022, and not because the number of attacks fell. It’s that more victims are

Author rabih
19 Jan

University of Texas latest US school to ban TikTok

Faculty and students at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) this week became the latest members of a public US university to lose access

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19 Jan

University of Texas becomes latest US school to ban TikTok

Faculty and students at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) this week became the latest members of a public US university to lose access

Author rabih
19 Jan

Mailchimp ‘fesses up to second digital burglary in five months

Email marketing service Mailchimp has confirmed intruders have gained access to more than 100 customer accounts after successfully deploying a social engineering attack. This is

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19 Jan

Ransomware severs 1,000 ships from on-shore servers

A Norwegian maritime risk management business is getting a lesson in that very area, after a ransomware attack forced its ShipManager software offline and left

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19 Jan

Ransomware attack severs 1,000 ships from their on-shore servers

A Norwegian maritime risk management business is getting a lesson in that very area, after a ransomware attack forced its ShipManager software offline and left

Author rabih
18 Jan

Thousands of Sophos firewalls still vulnerable out there to hijacking

More than 4,000 public-facing Sophos firewalls remain vulnerable to a critical remote code execution bug disclosed last year and patched months later, according to security

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18 Jan

Period-tracking apps, search engines on notice by draft law

A bill proposed by Washingston state lawmakers would make it illegal for period-tracking apps, Google or any other website to sell consumers’ health data while

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18 Jan

Period-tracking apps and search engines put on notice by draft law

A bill proposed by Washingston state lawmakers would make it illegal for period-tracking apps, Google or any other website to sell consumers’ health data while

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