CISA and the "Five Eyes" national intelligence agencies have issued their annual advisory on the top exploited vulnerabilities for the prior year, and its findings bolster some other recent reports that a successful attack is becoming increasingly likely to be the result of a zero-day.
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Scott Ikeda is a technology futurist and writer for more than 15 years. He travels extensively throughout Asia and writes about the impact of technology on the communities he visits. Over the last 5 years, Scott has grown increasingly focused on the future landscape of big data, surveillance, cybersecurity and the right to privacy.
South Korea's Meta fine comes as the result of a four-year investigation into Facebook's data collection practices between 2018 and 2022. Meta was found to have collected user information about sexual orientation, political views and religion among other items.
Attackers are targeting the DocuSign APIs to generate large amounts of fake invoices, which often skirt automated security and land in inboxes as they originate from "docusign.net" and appear to be coming from legitimate companies.
The campaign was conducted by malicious hackers who sold the stolen credentials off, with much of the info being put to use in spam and phishing campaigns. The attack simply made use of open-source tools to scan IP ranges for potentially vulnerable Git config files.
Chinese hackers have attempted to interfere in US elections before. Anonymous official sources have spoken out claiming that this year's free-ranging espionage campaign is seeking phone data from senior officials and leading candidates regardless of party affiliation.
As early as late July, Delta CEO Ed Bastian was threatening CrowdStrike with a lawsuit to recoup some of its estimated $500 million in losses from flight disruptions. CrowdStrike has filed its own suit pointing to Delta's slow recovery from the IT outage.
What the new AI guidance boils down to is essentially the legal principle that it cannot be considered "reasonable" respect for or protection of privacy to enter personal information into an AI system, unless that AI has been expressly designed for this.
The Biden White House continues to seek a balance between AI innovation and safe ethical use with a new national security memorandum that stresses the need to outcompete rivals, but also sets limits in the most potentially abusive areas.
The noyb privacy complaint notes that Pinterest has invoked the "legitimate interest" exception to user consent for ad tracking, one of a small handful of such exceptions provided for by the GDPR. The problem for the company is that Meta has already tried this tack and failed.
Each of the fined companies learned that they had been breached during the SolarWinds hack in 2020 or 2021. Each was found by the SEC to have negligently minimized its cybersecurity disclosures in ways that could mislead investors, but all using somewhat different language.









