Categories: News Tags: tiktok Tags: fine Tags: cookie Tags: consent Tags: opt out Tags: France Tags: CNIL We take a look at the latest fine hitting a social media network, this time over the issue of cookie consent. |
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Read moreCategories: News Tags: Karlee Besse Tags: Reach CPA Tags: time theft Tags: bossware Tags: TimeCamp Tags: Court Order Interest Act Tags: COIA Tags: Civil Resolution Tribunal Tags: CRT Bossware helped an employer fire an accountant for not working during work time. The accountant sued for wrongful termination. |
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Read moreCategories: News Tags: Erik McCauley Tags: SweetWizard Tags: law enforcement app Tags: ODIN Intelligence Tags: Wired SweepWizard, an app designed to assist law enforcement is causing a bit of trouble, was found inadvertently leaking sweeping data for years. |
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Read moreCategories: News Tags: Google Tags: Chromium Tags: Rust Tags: memory safety Tags: rule of two Google has announced that it will support the use of third-party Rust libraries in Chromium which is a step forward in memory safety for the browsers. |
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Read moreCategories: News Tags: AWIS Tags: weekly blog roundup Tags: week in security Tags: Slack Tags: GitHub Tags: Magecart Tags: Microsoft Tags: Pokemon NFT Tags: Facebook Tags: Instagram Tags: Snapchat Tags: TikTok Tags: YouTube Tags: Google Tags: Meta Tags: identity theft Tags: Maternal & Family Health Services Tags: 2023 predictions Tags: Royal Mail Tags: K-12 security Tags: K-12 Tags: WhatsApp Tags: NSO Group Tags: Department of Interior Tags: weak passwords Tags: Vice Society Tags: ransomware. Vice Society ransomware The most interesting security related news from the week of January 9—15. |
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Read moreCategories: News Categories: Ransomware Tags: Lorenz Tags: ransomware Tags: CVE-2022-29499 Tags: Mitel Tags: backdoor Tags: web shell A recent case-study showed once again that timely patching is important, but it’s not a silver bullet for stopping ransomware. |
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Read moreCategories: News Tags: ransomware Tags: high society Tags: compromise Tags: school Tags: schools Tags: learning Tags: documents Tags: data Tags: leak We take a look at reports of 14 schools being compromised by ransomware group Vice Society. |
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Read moreCategories: News Tags: US department of the interior Tags: password Tags: hashes Tags: cracking Tags: requirements Tags: MFA A recent audit cracked 21 percent of the department’s passwords. |
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Read moreCategories: News Tags: Pegasus Tags: spyware Tags: Pegasus spyware Tags: NSO Group Tags: NSO Tags: Apple Tags: WhatsApp Tags: Meta Tags: Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act The US Supreme Court essentially gave Meta’s WhatsApp the go ahead to pursue their case against Pegasus’s NSO Group. |
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Read moreCategories: Exploits and vulnerabilities Categories: News Tags: patch Tuesday Tags: CVE-2023-21674 Tags: APLC Tags: CVE-2023-21743 Tags: Sharepoint Tags: CVE-2023-21563 Tags: BitLocker The second Tuesday of the year brings us many updates, including one for an actively exploited vulnerability that could lead to elevation of privileges |
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