Google fined €50 million for violating EU data privacy rules. Twitter bug may have exposed private tweets of Android users for years. Plus some interesting results from the USA following a recent ESET survey.
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Emotet is moving, shape-shifting target for admins and their security software. Here’s what we’ve learned from dealing with outbreaks.
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The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued an emergency directive tightening DNS security after a recent wave of domain hijacking attacks targeting government websites.
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Your likes, interest and personality can be gleaned from as few as 8-9 friends on social media, whether you’re on the platform or not.
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A man has been arrested a year after stealing €10m ($15m) of the IoT-focused cryptocurrency IOTA using bogus software that tricked users.
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Adverts on Facebook featuring fake celebrity endorsements scam people out of their savings, and Facebook is now doing something about it.
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Many organizations find that getting their data privacy house in order is paying off.
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A new wave of attacks abuses the Google Cloud Platform URL redirection in PDF decoys, sending users to a malicious link.
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Breach latest example of how misconfigurations, human errors undermine security in a big way, experts say.
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