A €60 million ($63.88 million) fine has been levied against Microsoft’s Ireland subsidiary by France’s privacy authority for placing advertising cookies on customers’ computers without getting their permission, a violation of EU data protection laws. Users of Microsoft’s Bing search engine did not have a “tool to refuse cookies as simply as accepting them,” according […]
The LastPass security breach in August 2022 might have been more serious than the firm had initially revealed. The well-known password management service disclosed on Thursday that, using information stolen from the earlier break-in, malicious actors were able to steal a wealth of personal information belonging to its users, including their encrypted password vaults. Basic
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In an effort to lower the entrance barrier for malicious activity, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the seizure of 48 domains that provided services to carry out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) cyberattacks on behalf of other threat actors. Additionally, six individuals were charged for their alleged ownership of the operation: Jeremiah Sam
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Microsoft has released information about a security hole in Apple macOS that has since been patched and could be used by an attacker to go around security measures put in place to stop the execution of malicious software. The iPhone manufacturer resolved the flaw, dubbed Achilles (CVE-2022-42821, CVSS score: 5.5), with macOS Ventura 13, Monterey
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Popular password-management firm LastPass announced that it is looking into a second security issue in which hackers gained access to some of its customer data. According to LastPass CEO Karim Toubba, “We recently discovered suspicious activity within a third-party cloud storage service, which is now used by both LastPass and its partner, GoTo.” In October
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Following its reluctance to pay a ransom, Medibank revealed on Thursday that the threat actors responsible for the disastrous cyberattack have disclosed another data dump of information taken from its systems on the dark web. The Australian health insurance said, “We are in the midst of reviewing the data, but the data released looks to
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