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TikTok Abused Kids’ Data — UK Fines it $16 Million

| | Australia , Bytedance , children , Children and smartphones , five eyes , information commissioner's office , SB Blogwatch , TikTok , uk , Won’t somebody think of the children?
$8.50 per child: UK regulator punishes TikTok at 5.5% of revenue. Says app illegally tracked children ...
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Splunk: Cybersecurity Dynamics Rapidly Changing

| | cyberattacks , Cybersecurity , Enterprise Strategy Group , generative AI , Splunk
A survey of 1,520 cybersecurity and IT leaders published today found more than half (52%) reporting their organization suffered a data breach in the past two years, with 62% experiencing monthly unplanned ...
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Sysdig Details Proxyjacking Attack Leveraging Log4j Vulnerability

| | Cloud-native , Cryptojacking , cyberattacks , Log4j , proxyjacking , Sysdig
Sysdig today published a report that described how cybercriminals are exploiting the Log4j vulnerability to gain access to IP addresses that are then sold to entities that resell them. Dubbed proxyjacking, the ...
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Western Digital Hacked: ‘My Cloud’ Data Dead (Even Local Storage!)

| | cloud storage , My Cloud , Ransomware , SB Blogwatch , storage , WD , Western Digital , Western Digital My Cloud
Déjà Vu: Hack of WD systems leads to My Cloud service outage. Owners unable to access files ...
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Show Me the Coverage: Ransomware Actors Demand Cyberinsurance Policies

| | cyberinsurance , Cyberlaw , encryption , extortion , Malware , Ransomware
The landscape of cybersecurity threats is continuously evolving, and ransomware attacks have emerged as a significant concern for organizations of all sizes. In a ransomware attack, cybercriminals encrypt the victim’s files, rendering ...
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Twitter Presses GitHub to Turn Over User Who Leaked Source Code

| | Breach , Data Security , GitHub , leaks , Source Code , Twitter
When Twitter joined the ranks of tech companies whose source code leaked online, it was met with little surprise and a whole lot of unease over what the leak might mean for ...
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API Attacks Rise 400% in Last Six Months

| | API attacks , API security , APIs , Salt Labs , Salt Security
Attacks on APIs continue to rise sharply. New findings from Salt Labs found a shocking 400% increase in unique API attackers in the last six months. Interestingly, the report also discovered that ...
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Brits Slap Wrists of DDoS Kids, via NCA’s Fake Booter Sites

| | booter , booter services , booters and stressers , crime , ddos , National Crime Agency , National Cyber Crime Unit , NCA , Operation Power Off , Operation PowerOFF , SB Blogwatch , U.K. National Crime Agency , uk
UK National Crime Agency nips it in the bud: Aims to scare straight naughty DDoS kiddies ...
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Do You Need an Enterprise Browser to Secure Your Organization?

| | browser , browser attacks , credentials , Endpoint security , Password , Web security
Web browsers are a useful mechanism for handling many functions and types of media in one place, but they also present security risks and are common targets for hackers. Browser security refers ...
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We’ve Been Using Email Since 1971—It’s Time We Make it Secure

| | cyberattacks , email security , email-based attacks , Phishing , Ransomware
An estimated 333 billion emails were sent and received daily worldwide in 2022. Email is one of the most important communication tools used today. It’s also a powerful, accessible, effective and low-cost ...
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