Twitter Fined By EU Data Protection Watchdog For GDPR Breach Ireland’s Data Protection Commission fined Twitter €450,000 (~$550,000) for failing to notify the DPC of a breach within the 72-hour timeframe imposed by European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and to adequately document it. The GDPR is a user and data Read more…
Privacy-focused Brave Browser Grew Over 130% In The Past Year Brave Browser, the privacy-focused web browser, announced today that it grew in usage by over 130% in its first year of the release of its ‘Stable’ version. On November 13th, 2019, Brave Browser released its first Stable version after it Read more…
H&M Hit With Record-Breaking GDPR Fine Over Illegal Employee Surveillance Swedish multinational retail company H&M has been hit with a monumental €35 million ($41.3 million) GDPR fine for illegally surveilling employees in Germany. The Data Protection Authority of Hamburg (HmbBfDI) announced the fine on Thursday after the company was found to have Read more…
Singapore in World First for Facial Verification Singapore will be the first country in the world to use facial verification in its national identity scheme. The biometric check will give Singaporeans secure access to both private and government services. The government’s technology agency says it will be “fundamental” to the Read more…
France Warns Of Emotet Attacking Companies, Administration The French national cyber-security agency today published an alert warning of a surge in Emotet attacks targeting the private sector and public administration entities throughout the country. French public administration has three sub-sectors: central public administrations (APUC), local government (LUFA), and social security administrations (ASSO). Emotet, originally Read more…
FBI: Thousands Of Orgs Targeted By RDoS Extortion Campaign The FBI warns US companies that thousands of organizations around the world, from various industry sectors, have been threatened with DDoS attacks within six days unless they pay a Bitcoin ransom. The threat actors behind this large and ongoing ransom DDoS (RDDoS or Read more…
Tesla Asks USA For Permission To Automatically Detect Kids Left In Hot Car No Child Left Behind Tesla is seeking approval from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to market a sensor that could tell if a child has been left in a hot car, Reuters reports. According to the National Highway Traffic Read more…
Why Is Directory Listing Dangerous? Directory listing is a web server function that displays the directory contents when there is no index file in a specific website directory. It is dangerous to leave this function turned on for the web server because it leads to information disclosure. For example, when Read more…
Darknet Marketplace Snapshot Series: Amazin Market This marketplace is engaging in blatant copyright infringement The most notable characteristic of the darknet marketplace Amazin is that the administrator is committing outright copyright infringement by unlawfully using Amazon’s intellectual property in their branding. In addition to cloning Amazon’s official logo and replacing Read more…
Fried Chicken Winging Its Way To Hungry Sailors In Foodpanda Drone Delivery Test Flight SINGAPORE – Chickens do not stay in flight for long, but airborne fried chicken can go the distance, thanks to Foodpanda’s planned delivery service on drones. On Thursday (Aug 13), the food delivery platform successfully trialled Read more…
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