Month: July 2024
Jul 31, 2024Ravie LakshmananPrivacy / Social Media Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, agreed to a record $1.4 billion settlement with the U.S. state of Texas over allegations that it illegally collected biometric data of millions of users without their permission, marking one of the largest penalties levied by regulators against the…
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Adaptive Shield, a leader in SaaS Security, today announced its breakthrough Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR) platform for SaaS environments. Since entering this space a year ago, the company has already become a leader in the field, implementing the solution in hundreds of enterprise customer environments. Adaptive Shield will demonstrate its new ITDR platform…
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For the second year in a row, Brazil took the crown as the country with the lowest cost per breach, at $1.36 million (though up by 11.5%, from $1.22 million in 2023). Damages vary by attack type and skills shortage The type of attack influenced the financial damage, the report noted. Destructive attacks, in which…
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ESET Research ESET researchers detected multiple, widespread phishing campaigns targeting SMBs in Poland during May 2024, distributing various malware families 30 Jul 2024 • , 8 min. read Just a few months back, ESET Research published a blogpost about massive phishing campaigns across Central and Eastern Europe carried out during the second half of 2023.…
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Asked if there will differences in how online identity will be handled in China compared to other nations such as India, with its Aadhaar identifier, or France, whose France Connect allows residents to authenticate their identity to most government departments based on a verified identity already provided to another department, he said he expects that…
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AMD CEO Lisa Su says a ‘steep ramp’ of Instinct MI300 GPUs allowed the product family to exceed $1 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time. This meant the MI300 chips made up more than a third of AMD’s reported $2.8 billion in second-quarter data center revenue. AMD said sales exceeded expectations in the…
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Whole Foods self-checkout lanes were closed and Alexa devices weren’t working. Amazon Web Services was dealing with a significant outage Tuesday as Amazon-owned Whole Foods supermarkets closed self-checkout lanes, delivery drivers abandoned their routes and Alexa devices stopped working. The AWS service health dashboard said that there was a “degradation” of multiple services and the…
Read MoreMultiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Apple products, the most severe of which could allow for arbitrary code execution. Details of the vulnerabilities are as follows: Tactic: Execution (TA0002): Technique: Exploitation for Client Execution (T1203): An app with root privileges may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges. (CVE-2024-27878) An app may be…
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The tech giant, which has seen its stock price fall nearly 40 percent since earlier this year, likely wants to use the funds saved to invest in overcoming a recent slump in its share price and to market share losses to its semiconductor competitors including AMD, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. Intel is looking to eliminate thousands…
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A malicious campaign targeting Android devices worldwide utilizes thousands of Telegram bots to infect devices with SMS-stealing malware and steal one-time 2FA passwords (OTPs) for over 600 services. Zimperium researchers discovered the operation and have been tracking it since February 2022. They report finding at least 107,000 distinct malware samples associated with the campaign. The…
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