Users of the Windows version of WhatsApp are being warned by Meta to update to the latest version to patch a flaw that attackers could exploit. The WhatsApp vulnerability involves use of a malicious attachment to execute arbitrary code.
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The two data breaches are separate issues, but the common theme is criticism of Oracle's forthrightness about what exactly happened and what victims should expect going forward.
A massive data leak of 2.87 billion X/Twitter profiles, more than four times the site's current active monthly user estimate and likely including most going back to the creation of Twitter, may have been the work of a disgruntled former employee laid off during Musk's takeover of the company.
App Tracking Transparency has faced some level of antitrust controversy from the beginning for excluding Apple's own pre-installed apps and handling them with special conditions.
Though this particular case only applies to its plaintiff, human rights advocate Tanya O’Carroll, the ICO-backed decision will likely have to inform the company's broader UK targeted advertising policy as others could launch similar suits.
The new recipients of 23andMe’s data would not necessarily have to offer consumers the ability to opt out once they take possession of it. And it remains unclear which (or how many) hands the data would wind up in, raising additional security as well as privacy concerns.
The Oracle Cloud attack is on pace to be one of 2025's biggest data breaches, possibly on the scale of the MOVEit breach if enough clients turn out to be impacted. However, Oracle has yet to publicly acknowledge it.
The malware that the researchers were able to coax out of DeepSeek was rudimentary and required some manual code editing to make it functional. But the incident demonstrates that the guardrails preventing malicious behavior in generative AI systems remain thin.
The "day-to-day" of organized crimes is increasingly being moved online and optimized with AI-powered tools: things like communication, payments to partners, and recruitment of new operatives.
New York Attorney General Letitia James has sued insurance giant Allstate over two data breaches that exposed the driver’s license numbers of nearly 200,000 people.
