The French government announced a “Paris Call” for global talks about cyberspace security aimed at laying out a shared framework of rules. The French government is promoting a series of Global Talks on cyberspace security, it urges for a “code of good conduct” for states in the cyberspace. Events such as the interference in the 2016 Presidential election or […]
Facebook has been fined ÂŁ500,000 by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal that exposed data of 87 million users. The announcement was made by the UK’s data protection regulator, Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham. “The ICO’s investigation found that between 2007 and 2014, Facebook processed the personal information of users unfairly […]
The Japanese government ordered Facebook to improve the protection of users’ personal information following the recent data breaches that exposed data from millions of people. At the end of September, Facebook admitted that attackers exploited a vulnerability in the âView Asâ feature that allowed them to steal Facebook access tokens of 50 Million Users. A couple of weeks […]
The Supreme Court of the US ruled that police must obtain a search warrant before obtaining mobile location data from mobile carriers and similar services. The Supreme Court of the United States ruled this week that law enforcement must obtain a search warrant before obtaining cell phone location information from mobile carriers or third-party services. […]
The Justice Department announced an effort to disrupt the VPNFilter botnet of hundreds of thousands of infected home and office (SOHO) routers and other networked devices under the control of a Russia-linked APT group. Yesterday Talos and other security firm revealed the discovery of a huge botnet tracked as VPNFilter composed of more than 500,000 compromised routers and […]
Home Wi-Fi networks in the UK using Super Router provided by TalkTalk ISP are affected by a vulnerability that exposes them to cyber attacks. Security researchers at software house IndigoFuzz have discovered a security flaw in the implementation of the WPS feature of the TalkTalk Super Router that can be exploited to compromise to steal […]
Uber agrees to a new settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over the massive 2016 data breach, the authorities could assign civil penalties against the company if it will fail to share incident data with FTC. Uber agrees to a new settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over the massive 2016 data breach. “Uber Technologies, […]
Airbnb China announced that it will share user data belonging to Chinese users with the Government to comply with national laws and regulations. Airbnb announced that it will share user data belonging to Chinese users with the Government. The company is notifying the Chinese users it will share guest’s information with local authorities to comply […]
The US Department of State wants to ask visa applicants to provide details on the social media accounts they’ve managed in the past five years. The US Government wants to make it mandatory for all foreigners (immigrant /non-immigrant) to provide social media details, telephone numbers, email addresses, and international travel during this period. when applying for […]
A Supreme Court in Russia ruled Telegram must provide the FSB with encryption keys to access users’ messaging data to avoid being blocked. Bad news for Telegram, a Supreme Court in Russia ruled the company must provide the FSB with encryption keys to access users’ messaging data. If Telegram will refuse to comply the request the authorities […]