UK data watchdog would like a word over failure to systems Long-standing British broadsheet The Guardian has told staff to continue working from home and notified the UK’s data privacy watchdog about the security breach following a suspected ransomware attack…
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Ireland fines Meta $414m for using personal data without asking
Facebook, Insta told to pay up, make changes to data slurping process within 3 months A legal saga between Meta, Ireland and the European Union has reached a conclusion – at least for now – that forces the social media…
PyTorch dependency poisoned with malicious code
System data was exfiltrated during attack, but an anonymous person says it was a research project gone wrong An unknown attacker used the PyPI code repository to get developers to download a compromised PyTorch dependency that included malicious code designed…
LockBit: Sorry about the SickKids ransomware, not sorry about the rest
Blame it on the affiliate Notorious ransomware gang LockBit “formally apologized” for an extortion attack against Canada’s largest children’s hospital that the criminals blamed on a now-blocked affiliate group, and said it published a free decryptor for the victim to…
Google gets off easy in location tracking lawsuits
$29.5 million and we don’t have to admit wrongdoing? Where do we sign? Google has settled two more of the many location tracking lawsuits it had been facing over the past year, and this time the search giant is getting…
‘Multiple security breaches’ shut down trucker protest
10-7, there buddy, sorry An anti-government protest by truckers in Canada has been called off following “multiple security breaches,” according to organizers, who also cited “personal character attacks,” as a reason for the withdrawal.… This article has been indexed from The…
‘Multiple security breaches’ shut down Canadian trucker protest repeat
The Freedom Convoy ‘will remain Officially 10-7 until further notice’ An anti-government protest but truckers in Canada has been called off following “multiple security breaches,” according to organizers, who also cited “personal character attacks,” as a reason for the withdrawal.… This…
Google gets off easy in Indiana, DC location tracking lawsuits
$29.5 million and we don’t have to admit wrongdoing? Where do we sign? Google has settled two more of the many location tracking lawsuits it had been facing over the past year, and this time the search giant is getting…