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EU legislation introduced to ban anonymous domain registration

The European Union is drafting legislation that could soon end individuals registering domains anonymously on the continent. […]

07 Oct

Netherlands orders Apple to offer more App Store payment methods

The Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) in the Netherlands is pressing Apple to lift App Store payment restrictions in the country. […]

04 Oct

Ransomware operators behind hundreds of attacks arrested in Ukraine

Europol has announced the arrest of two men in Ukraine, said to be members of a prolific ransomware operation that extorted victims with ransom demands ranging between €5 to €70 million. […]

04 Aug

INFRA:HALT security bugs impact critical industrial control devices

High-severity and critical vulnerabilities collectively referred to as INFRA:HALT are affecting all versions of NicheStack below 4.3, a proprietary TCP/IP stack used by at least 200 industrial automation vendors, many in the leading segment of the market. […]

03 Jun

US Supreme Court restricts broad scope of CFAA law

Today, the US Supreme Court restricted the scope of the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act after overturning the conviction of a Georgia police officer who searched a police database for money. […]

05 Aug

Google to pay $7.5M in class action settlement. That’s $5 a victim.

As confirmed by BleepingComputer, users today are receiving emails titled, “Notice of Class Action Settlement re Google Plus…” that offer details on the two-year class-action lawsuit Google had been litigating because of the Google+ data leak. […]

04 Apr

DOJ Says Zoom-Bombing is Illegal, Could Lead to Jail Time

The Department of Justice and Offices of the United States Attorneys are warning that ‘Zoom-bombing’ is illegal and those who are involved can be charged with federal and state crimes. […]

21 Feb

New Mexico Sues Google for Mining Children’s Data

Google is facing a new lawsuit for allegedly using its Google for Education platform to gather the personal and private data from students under the age of thirteen. […]

06 Jan

IT Executive Steals $6 Million, Busted by Word Doc Metadata

A former corporate executive for integrated marketing solutions firm Rakuten Marketing swindled roughly $6 million between August 2015 and at least May 2019 using a shell company named Interactive Systems. […]

27 Sep

US Senate Passes Bill in Response to Rampant Ransomware, CyberAttacks

The U.S. Senate passed the ‘DHS Cyber Hunt and Incident Response Teams Act’ (S.315) to authorize the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to maintain cyber hunt and incident response teams to help private and public entities defend against cyber-attacks. […]

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