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Irish data protection commission fines Meta over 2021 data-scraping leak

Irish data protection commission (DPC) fined Meta for not protecting Facebook's users' data from scraping. Meta has been fined €265 million…

3 years ago

A flaw in some Acer laptops can be used to bypass security features

ESET announced the discovery of a vulnerability impacting Acer laptops that can allow an attacker to deactivate UEFI Secure Boot.…

3 years ago

Experts found a vulnerability in AWS AppSync

Amazon Web Services (AWS) fixed a cross-tenant vulnerability that could have allowed attackers to gain unauthorized access to resources. Amazon…

3 years ago

RansomBoggs Ransomware hit several Ukrainian entities, experts attribute it to Russia

Several Ukrainian organizations were hit by Russia-based RansomBoggs Ransomware in the last week, ESET reports. Researchers from ESET observed multiple…

3 years ago

Security Affairs newsletter Round 395

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for…

3 years ago

US FCC bans the import of electronic equipment from Chinese firms

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission announced it will completely ban the import of electronic equipment from Huawei, ZTE, Hytera, Hikvision,…

3 years ago

Data from 5.4M Twitter users obtained from multiple threat actors

The massive data breach suffered by Twitter that exposed emails and phone numbers of its customers may have impacted more…

3 years ago

Devices from Dell, HP, and Lenovo used outdated OpenSSL versions

Researchers discovered that devices from Dell, HP, and Lenovo are still using outdated versions of the OpenSSL cryptographic library. Binarly researchers discovered…

3 years ago

Google fixed the eighth actively exploited #Chrome #zeroday this year

Google on Thursday released security updates to address a new zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-4135, impacting the Chrome web browser.…

3 years ago

Experts investigate WhatsApp data leak: 500M user records for sale

Cybernews investigated a data sample available for sale containing up-to-date mobile phone numbers of nearly 500 million WhatsApp users. Original…

3 years ago

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