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Germany accuses China of cyberattacks on Federal Office
The federal government of Germany implies that state-sponsored hackers from China are responsible for a series of cyberattacks on a government organization that collects location data.
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CISA and FBI: ‘DDoS attacks won’t impact the US elections’
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on the election infrastructure, or adjacent infrastructure that support election operations, will not impact the security or integrity of the 2024 United States presidential election process.
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World's first comprehensive law on AI
The Artificial Intelligence Act or AI Act officially goes into effect today. The various requirements this law imposes will be applied step by step in the coming years. Tech companies, government institutions and other organizations will have a lot of work ahead of them.
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Texas reaches a settlement with Meta for 1.4 billion dollar for unlawfully capturing people’s faces
The State of Texas has secured a 1.4 billion dollar settlement with Meta. The Menlo Park-based tech company captured and used biometric data of millions of Texans without their permission.
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ICO gives Electoral Commission slap on the wrist for data breach
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the security and privacy watchdog in the United Kingdom, has issued a reprimand to the Electoral Commission after hackers were able to steal the personal information of approximately 40 million voters.
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1Password is now ISO/IEC 27001 certified
1Password has received ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification, as well as ISO/IEC 27017:2015, ISO/IEC 27018:2019 and ISO/IEC 27701:2019. That means the password manager now meets the highest international standards for information security and privacy.
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Member of European Parliament targeted by spyware
Daniel Freund, a German member of the Greens/European Free Alliance in the European Parliament, says he was targeted by a sophisticated surveillance tool two weeks before the EU elections.
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NCTV: ‘Societies aren’t prepared for global outages’
The National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security (NCTV), an institution tasked with the protection of the Netherlands against cyber threats and terrorism, says Western societies aren’t prepared for an outage like we witnessed earlier this month.
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TikTok fined for providing inaccurate information on safety controls
The Office of Communications (Ofcom), the regulator and competition authority for the communications industries in the United Kingdom, has fined TikTok £1.875 million for failing to accurately respond to a formal request for information about its parental controls safety feature.
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Damages caused by faulty CrowdStrike update could reach up to 1.5 billion dollars
Cyber risk analytics firm CyberCube estimates that the preliminary insured losses from the CrowdStrike IT outage could be anywhere between $400 million and $1.5 billion.
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Spanish regulator investigating Apple for anti-competitive practices in App Store
The Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC), the Spanish competition authority, has launched an investigation into Apple for possible anti-competitive practices within the App Store.
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ICANN issues breach notice to .top registry operator
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is threatening to cancel its contract with the company that’s responsible for the .top registry top-level domain name.
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Law enforcement authorities take down criminal DDoS-for-hire service
Law enforcement agencies from Northern Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States have taken down the “world’s most prolific DDoS-for-hire service.”
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CrowdStrike: ‘bug in content validator root cause of global outage’
Due to a bug in the Content Validator, a faulty update was released, causing a worldwide outage.
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Wiz is pulling the plug on multi-billion dollar acquisition
Israeli cybersecurity startup Wiz is no longer talking to Google’s parent company Alphabet on an alleged 23 billion dollar acquisition deal.
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Meta can’t say Facebook and Instagram are ‘free’
Meta is misleading Facebook and Instagram users by using the term ‘free’ when describing its ‘pay or okay’ business model.
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Authorities arrest teenager for MGM Resorts hack
In coordination with the FBI, the West Midlands Police arrested a 17 year old boy from Walsall regarding the cyberattack on MGM Resorts last year.
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Two Russians admit being members of LockBit ransomware group
Two Russian nationals pleaded guilty to participating in the LockBit, one of the most prolific ransomware operations in the world at the time. They face 25 to 45 years in prison.
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Faulty CrowdStrike security update causes BSODs, delays and other inconveniences
Millions of Windows computers all over the world are displaying the dreading blue screen of death (BSOD). These problems are caused by a glitch in the CrowdStrike security software.
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Dutch DPA to local authorities: ‘Be hesitant when using artificial intelligence’
The Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (AP), the Dutch privacy regulator, is asking local municipalities to be vigilant when using artificial intelligence (AI).
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