Fine imposed by the Norwegian data protection authority in August could be expanded to the entirety of the EU, subjecting Meta to extensive daily penalties until it makes big changes to tracking ads. Decision could potentially spark an EU ban.
Cyber attack on Norwegian media company Amedia halted the publication of printed newspapers and potentially compromised personal information of employees and subscribers.
Genesis dark web market that is thought to have facilitated the sale of some 80 million credentials is now in the hands of law enforcement, after an international campaign that involved about 200 raids and 100 arrests.
Compromised data belonging to ten companies is on sale on the dark web by a hacking group called ShinyHunters. The 73 million stolen user records is being sold for $18,000.
Collaborative international law enforcement effort appears to have at least temporarily crippled the notorious REvil ransomware gang, taking the group's Tor sites and dark web infrastructure off the internet and putting it beyond reach.
noyb notes that the ultimate outcome of this GDPR complaint could set a precedent that makes online privacy very expensive. If Meta's ad-free model is ultimately legitimized, it is likely that all other apps supported by targeted advertising will adopt the same scheme.
China has not received an adequacy decision for international data transfers due to known and expected access by the government. The six apps that the noyb privacy complaints are targeting are TikTok, AliExpress, SHEIN, Temu, WeChat and Xiaomi.
NSA issued an advisory that hackers were exploiting VMWare’s and SolarWinds’ Orion vulnerabilities to perform federated login and execute attacks as part of SolarWinds hack.
A joint cybersecurity advisory by the NSA and GCHQ warns that Russian hackers are brute forcing passwords on the cloud using a Kubernetes cluster in a global cyber espionage campaign.
NSA released a list of the 25 top vulnerabilities exploited by state-sponsored Chinese hackers. In response, Beijing accused the US of being an "empire of hacking."
