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Video Organizations that leveraged AI and automation in security prevention cut the cost of a data breach by US$2.22 million compared to those that didn’t deploy these technologies, according to IBM 02 Aug 2024 Organizations that leveraged the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation in security prevention cut the cost of a data breach…
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Aug 03, 2024Ravie LakshmananPrivacy / Data Protection The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ), along with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), filed a lawsuit against popular video-sharing platform TikTok for “flagrantly violating” children’s privacy laws in the country. The agencies claimed the company knowingly permitted children to create TikTok accounts and to view and share short-form…
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Aug 03, 2024Ravie LakshmananDDoS Attack / Server Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack campaign targeting misconfigured Jupyter Notebooks. The activity, codenamed Panamorfi by cloud security firm Aqua, utilizes a Java-based tool called mineping to launch a TCP flood DDoS attack. Mineping is a DDoS package designed for Minecraft…
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Search Engine Companies These are typically crawlers or spiders belonging to large search engine providers. They index content from websites all over the internet so they can help users of their search engines to find things on the internet. Google, Bing, Facebook, Amazon, Baidu, etc. all have scrapers that regularly visit every single website on…
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Cybercriminals regularly abuse free services to host malware or to set up command-and-control (C2) infrastructure because they know connections to such services won’t raise suspicion inside networks. Such is the case with TryCloudflare.com, which was recently abused in a widespread campaign to deliver remote access trojans (RATs). TryCloudflare is a tunneling feature that enables users…
Read MoreFriday Squid Blogging: Treating Squid Parasites A newly discovered parasite that attacks squid eggs has been treated. Blog moderation policy. Tags: squid Posted on August 2, 2024 at 5:04 PM • Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis. Source link lol
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A recent Google Chrome update has broken the drag-and-drop feature in the Downloads bubble that previously allowed you to drag and drop downloaded files onto any website or tab in the browser. Google Chrome’s downloads menu originally appeared in a bar at the bottom of the browser, but this changed last year when it was replaced…
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Image: MidjourneyThe U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against popular social media platform TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, alleging widespread violations of children’s privacy laws. This lawsuit alleges that TikTok collected personal information from children under 13 without parental consent, violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Since 2019, TikTok has…
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Google Chrome is now encouraging uBlock Origin users who have updated to the latest version to switch to other ad blockers before Manifest v2 extensions are disabled. As uBlock Origin lead developer and maintainer Raymond Hill explained on Friday, this is the result of Google deprecating support for the Manifest v2 (MV2) extensions platform in…
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Comments from Delta CEO Ed Bastian this week seem to allege that the co-opetition between CrowdStrike and Microsoft may have played a role in the massive July 19 outage. For years, Microsoft and CrowdStrike have had what can only be described as a strange—and strained—relationship. This was true long before the global IT outage two…
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