privacy
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THN Cybersecurity Recap: Last Week’s Top Threats and Trends (September 23-29)
Hold onto your hats, folks, because the cybersecurity world is anything but quiet! Last week, we dodged a bullet when…
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Meta Fined €91 Million for Storing Millions of Facebook and Instagram Passwords in Plaintext
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Meta €91 million ($101.56 million) as part of a probe into a…
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How to Plan and Prepare for Penetration Testing
As security technology and threat awareness among organizations improves so do the adversaries who are adopting and relying on new…
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Mozilla Faces Privacy Complaint for Enabling Tracking in Firefox Without User Consent
Vienna-based privacy non-profit noyb (short for None Of Your Business) has filed a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority…
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U.S. Proposes Ban on Connected Vehicles Using Chinese and Russian Tech
The U.S. Department of Commerce (DoC) said it’s proposing a ban on the import or sale of connected vehicles that…
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Kaspersky Exits U.S., Automatically Replaces Software With UltraAV, Raising Concerns
Antivirus vendor Kaspersky has formally begun pulling back its offerings in the U.S., migrating existing users to UltraAV, effective September…
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Telegram Agrees to Share User Data With Authorities for Criminal Investigations
In a major policy reversal, the popular messaging app Telegram has announced it will give users’ IP addresses and phone…
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Discord Introduces DAVE Protocol for End-to-End Encryption in Audio and Video Calls
Popular social messaging platform Discord has announced that it’s rolling out a new custom end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) protocol to secure…
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LinkedIn Halts AI Data Processing in UK Amid Privacy Concerns Raised by ICO
The U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has confirmed that professional social networking platform LinkedIn has suspended processing users’ data in…
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