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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Image: MidjourneyA Facebook malvertising campaign targets users searching for AI image editing tools and steals their credentials by tricking them into installing fake apps that mimic legitimate software. The attackers exploit the popularity of AI-driven image-generation tools by creating malicious websites that closely resemble legitimate services and trick potential victims into infecting themselves with information…
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Effective Data Security Management: Strategies and Best Practices Cybersecurity threat management is one of the biggest issues for any organization today. But while there are many aspects to this, one of the biggest focuses for every firm must be securing sensitive data from loss, theft or corruption. This matters because data loss of some kind…
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The semiconductor giant’s stock sank nearly 30 percent on Friday, the day after announcing a 15 percent workforce cut and other cost-saving measures, including the suspension of dividends. Shares of semiconductor giant Intel Friday plummeted nearly 30 percent a day after the company unveiled major moves to cut costs, including a massive layoff of roughly…
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U.S. and German law enforcement seized the domain of the crypto wallet platform Cryptonator, used by ransomware gangs, darknet marketplaces, and other illicit services, and indicted its operator. The alleged Cryptonator’s operator, Roman Boss, has been charged with money laundering and running an unlicensed money service business operation. Cryptonator is an online cryptocurrency wallet launched…
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Aug 02, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Malware A Russia-linked threat actor has been linked to a new campaign that employed a car for sale as a phishing lure to deliver a modular Windows backdoor called HeadLace. “The campaign likely targeted diplomats and began as early as March 2024,” Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 said in…
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Aug 02, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Malware A Taiwanese government-affiliated research institute that specializes in computing and associated technologies was breached by nation-state threat actors with ties to China, according to new findings from Cisco Talos. The unnamed organization was targeted as early as mid-July 2023 to deliver a variety of backdoors and post-compromise tools…
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Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has been blocked in Indonesia by its government after citizens reportedly complained about pornographic and online gambling content in its search results. The government’s choice to block DuckDuckGo isn’t surprising considering the cultural and religious context, with Indonesia being a Muslim country where gambling is prohibited and porn is viewed as…
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