Meta’s $1.3 Billion Fine Is a Strike Against Surveillance Capitalism
Europe’s GDPR has just dealt its biggest hammer blow yet. Almost exactly five years since the continent’s strict data rules came into force, Meta has…
Month: May 2023
Analysis of Network Security Countermeasures From the Perspective of Improved FS Algorithm and ICT Convergence
Abstract: In this paper, the forward selection (FS) algorithm is introduced on the basis of information and communication technology, and the design of intrusion detection…
Gatwick Express Cyber Attack: NoName Takes Responsibility
Pro-Russian hacktivist group NoName057(16) has claimed responsibility for taking down the website of the UK private railway company Gatwick Express. The suspected Gatwick Express Cyber…
Bad Magic’s Extended Reign in Cyber Espionage Goes Back Over a Decade
May 22, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Malware New findings about a hacker group linked to cyber attacks targeting companies in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict area reveal…
GDPR: Let’s kill the FUD
It seems everywhere you look, the talk about GDPR is designed to scare you into action. Fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) are powerful motivators. Probably…
Facebook owner Meta fined record €1.2 billion over EU-US data transfers
Meta, the company which owns Facebook, has been fined €1.2 billion and has been ordered to suspend transfers of data from Facebook users in the…
Irish Data Protection Commission Imposes $1.3bn Fine On Meta
Facebook… sorry, Meta has to pay a fine of more than €1.2 billion ($1.3 billion), ruled the Data Protection Commission of Ireland. The penalty was…
The 7 biggest web security news of 2015
Below, the Detectify team has listed some of the largest security news and breaches of the past year, that have had a great impact on…
A New AI Trained Exclusively on the Dark Web
South Korean researchers (Youngjin Jin, Eugene Jang, Jian Cui, Jin-Woo Chung, Yongjae Lee, Seungwon Shin) at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology) developed…
CISA Warns that Hackers Actively Exploiting Samsung Vulnerability
CISA has issued a recent warning regarding a security flaw that impacts Samsung devices, enabling attackers to circumvent Android’s address space layout randomization (ASLR) protection…
NAO calls for clarity on government’s net-zero innovation spending plans
A National Audit Office (NAO) report into the government’s planned net-zero technology investments has concluded that further action is needed to ensure it gets value…
GitHub Celebrates Four Years of Bug Bounties: Q&A with VP of Security, Shawn Davenport
GitHub celebrated the fourth anniversary of its Security Bug Bounty program and released a comprehensive recap of a record-breaking 2017 to mark the moment. To…