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Delta is suing CrowdStrike for $550M over global outage
Delta is filing a lawsuit against CrowdStrike. The Atlanta-based airline company is asking for $550 million in damages to cover its losses, along with litigation costs and punitive damages.
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Schrems: ‘Industry is portraying GDPR as stupid and unworkable’
Max Schrems, chairman of the Austrian privacy interest group Noyb, argues that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) doesn’t work because of political pressure on supervisory authorities. “Major players think they can do whatever they want, because they employ 500 lawyers,” he says.
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Russian court sentences four REvil members to several years in jail
The St. Petersburg Garrison Military Court has sentenced four alleged members of the ransomware gang REvil up to six years in prison for hacking and money laundering.
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LinkedIn fined € 310M for processing personal data without appropriate legal basis
LinkedIn not only gets a slap on the wrist for processing personal data without the correct legal basis. The social network for businesses also has to cough up € 310 million in administrative fines and bring its processing into compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
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Noyb files complaint against Pinterest over default tracking
The Austrian privacy organization Noyb has filed a complaint with the French data protection authority (DPA) against Pinterest for tracking people without their consent.
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Dutch regulator imposes € 2.25M fine on Vodafone for insecure tapping system
The Dutch Authority for Digital Infrastructure (RDI) has fined Vodafone for € 2.25 million for insufficiently securing its tapping system.
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Thousands of WordPress websites have been hacked to spread malware via fake updates
Threat actors have launched a campaign in which they hack WordPress websites using stolen login credentials and installing malicious plugins. Over 6,000 WordPress websites have already been targeted.
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DJI suing US Department of Defense for being labeled ‘Chinese military company’
Drone manufacturer DJI is suing the United States Department of Defense for its decision to designate DJI as a ‘Chinese military company’.
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Cisco takes DevHub environment offline after cyberattack
After careful consideration, Cisco has decided to close its DevHub environment, a resource center to support Cisco’s community by making parts of the company’s software code and scripts publicly available.
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Global Life discloses cyberattack, approximately 5,000 customers affected
Global Life, one of the largest life and health insurance companies in the United States, has suffered a data breach due to a cyberattack, impacting roughly 5,000 customers.
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Casio says there’s ‘no prospect of recovery yet’ after cyberattack
It’s been almost two weeks since Casio suffered a data breach, and yet the company still hasn’t fully recovered from the devastating incident.
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European Commission does not consider X a gatekeeper under the Digital Markets Act
After careful consideration, the European Commission finds that X should not be designated as a core platform service under the Digital Markets Act.
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Companies fined in Britain for bombarding people with spam messages
The United Kingdom's Information Commissioner’s Office has imposed fines on two financial and debt management companies for a total of £ 150,000 for sending over 7.5 million spam text messages to people.
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Amnesty International calls for ban on facial recognition
Amnesty International has called for a ban on facial recognition technology that Dutch police officers use to identify protesters. In addition, there should be clear rules for the use of police cameras at protests.
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New Android malware variants of TrickMo stealing PINs via banking overlays
Security analysts have found 40 new variants of TrickMo. It acts as a banking trojan and serves users with overlays of fake login screens in order to steal login credentials and perform unauthorized transactions.
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OpenAI: ‘Hackers use ChatGPT to develop malware and deploy phishing attacks’
ChatGPT developer OpenAI has disrupted over 20 state-linked cyber actors and covert influence operations around the world that have attempted to use ChatGPT to write and develop their own malware.
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Game Freak confirms great Pokémon hack, source codes surface
Over the weekend, game developer Game Freak was faced with a significant hack. As a result, the source code for various Pokémon games and future projects appeared on the internet.
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Casio confirms data breach of customer data after cyberattack
Casio Computer has confirmed it suffered a data breach, which was caused by a third party ransomware attack.
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Ukrainian VPN operator arrested for offering rogue VPN service
The Ukrainian cyber police have arrested a 28 year old self-taught hacker for providing a VPN service that would let users connect to Russia’s Runet.
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Marriott settles multiple data breaches for $ 52M
Marriott International Inc. has agreed to pay a $ 52 million penalty to settle three large data breaches.
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