Meta Fined 251 Million Euros for 2018 Data Breach Incident

The Irish privacy regulator DPC imposed a fine of 251 million euros on Meta due to a major data breach with Facebook in 2018. By abusing user tokens, unauthorized third parties managed to obtain data from 29 million users, including three million European users. This included full name, email address, telephone number, location, work location, […]

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US Government Mandates Security Measures for Microsoft 365 Environments

Federal US government agencies have been given six months to secure their Microsoft 365 environments according to specific guidelines, the US Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has announced. CISA has the option to oblige federal government agencies to take certain actions via a “Binding Operational Directive” in order to protect

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Active Exploitation of Critical Apache Struts 2 Vulnerability Reported by ISC

Attackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in Apache Struts 2, the Internet Storm Center (ISC) reports. The vulnerability (CVE-2024-53677) allows remote code execution. Struts is a very popular open source framework for developing Java web applications and websites. The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to modify file upload parameters, allowing path traversal and in

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CrowdStrike Seeks Dismissal of Delta Air Lines Lawsuit

CrowdStrike has asked a US judge to drop the lawsuit filed by Delta Air Lines. The cybersecurity company points to the contract conditions. Delta Air Lines has sued CrowdStrike over the major outage caused by an update from the company earlier this year. The American airline claims that the disruption caused damage of more than

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Interpol Seeks to Eliminate Term Pig Butchering from Usage

Interpol wants an end to the use of the term ‘Pig Butchering’ because it is said to be offensive to victims. Last month, the Dutch Banking Association (NVB) warned about pig butchering, which is a combination of dating fraud and investment fraud. Scammers first build a relationship of trust with victims and then entice them

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