Prime Minister Edi Rama ended diplomatic ties with Iran in a video statement on September 7, citing the July cyber attack and requiring the country's embassy staff to leave within 24 hours.
Alexa bug allows hackers to access users' voice history, personal, and banking information. The vulnerability also allows hackers to install or uninstall Alexa skills on compromised accounts.
Alibaba's security team was the first to discover the Log4j vulnerability. Though Alibaba Cloud was not compromised, the company is nevertheless facing consequences for failing to notify Chinese regulators within two days as required by new laws passed in September 2021.
More than 3,000 #cybersecurity specialists and 1,258 algorithmic models worked 24 hours around the clock to fend off 2.2 billion cyber attacks on Singles Day. Just another day's work for Alibaba defending 300 million hacking attempts per day.
The PIPC fine to Alibaba Group was accompanied by an order to rectify the privacy violations, along with a set of recommendations to avoid future regulatory action. About 180,000 AliExpress customers are thought to have been impacted.
Qualys researchers said the 12-year-old memory corruption local privilege escalation vulnerability on polkit's Set User ID program pkexec is easily exploitable by novice attackers and affects every major Linux distribution.
Consumers can now access all Microsoft accounts using passwordless authentication using Microsoft Authenticator App, Windows Hello, security key, or SMS and email verification codes.
Instead of sending personally identifiable information directly to advertisers, Google is allegedly using hidden web tracking pages to keep its online advertising profitable.
Critics are concerned that Prop. 24 might instead create a "pay for privacy" scheme that would leave behind users of online services that are unwilling or unable to pay added fees.
A member of a hacker forum claims that they have stolen Razer's "keys to the kingdom" in the form of source code, encryption keys and employee credentials, and is looking for a $100,000 Monero payout. Razer has yet to confirm the data breach.
