Microsoft Exchange zero-day vulnerabilities affect an estimated 250,000 on-premise servers. The company is aware of attacks involving a single state-sponsored group that compromised less than ten organizations.
French regulator CNIL found that the tiktok.com website, which allows users to view content via a web browser without logging in, did not have an adequate process for cookie consent.
The US Cyber Command is expecting the TrickBot botnet to be involved in election interference attempts, and is actively running persistent operations against it along with Microsoft.
CNIL has hit Apple's App Store with a fine of €8 million over its ad personalization practices, taking it to task for not properly collecting consent and making the process of opting out too indirect.
A hacker who leaked one million genetic profiles from 23andMe in early October has returned with an even larger trove, this time dumping a little over four million files and including the DNA Relatives feature that allows for connections between relations to be made.
Aeroflot canceled 54 of its 260 scheduled flights for the day due to the cyber attack, and an undetermined number of others experienced some amount of delay. 22 outbound flights from Moscow were subsequently canceled the following day, along with 31 incoming flights operated by subsidiary Rossiya Airlines.
Currently slated for a September release, iOS 15 will implement enhanced privacy controls for Siri's speech recognition and email privacy as well as a new "privacy report" feature.
Microsoft faces a hefty fine over Bing cookie consent issues, and has additionally been given three months to get the system into compliance or it could face additional fines of €60,000 per day.
The FBI has declared the security breach of its surveillance system by suspected Chinese hackers a major cyber incident with potential national security implications.
Following Optus hack, the Telstra data breach appears to be limited to the signup process of a third-party rewards system for company staff, but two telcos losing personal information in two weeks has caused serious concern.
