The US Department of Defense will be investing more into cybersecurity measures with the opening of its new Zero Trust office next month. David McKeown, Pentagon CISO, said that the office will report to the CIO until a senior executive is named. SolarWinds campaign…
The UK Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit against Google. The claimant had sought billions in damages from Google. But the judge said they had failed to prove damage caused to individuals by the data collection. Future lawsuits may have a chance of being successful if they can…
Phhhoto, a defunct photo app, is suing Meta for antitrust violations. The company claims that the social media site copied its features and hid its name from search results. Phhhoto’s technology enabled users to capture five frames in a single point-and-shoot burst. They…
Attackers abuse Chrome with a very dangerous malicious software. It can access sensitive information and bypass Windows security features, such as User Account Controls (UAC). The new campaign targets Windows 10 PCs with malware that can infect systems without notifying the…
Online ads on children might become a thing of the past, in Ireland. Thus, the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Media is recommending a ban on marketing different products. Among these, there are: junk food, alcohol, high fat/salt/sugar foods, and gambling to children. The…
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) puts Facebook in trouble again, as it fined the company £50.5m ($70m), for its Giphy acquisition. The company is being investigated for breaking rules, and ignoring many warnings from the CMA. Its own actions put…
Russia recently announced it would fine Google for refusing to remove content deemed illegal. Russia’s decision comes after months of foreign tech firms like Google refusing to delete some pieces of content, unpleasant for the authorities. The measure might be the…
Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) announced they are currently tracking more than 270 state-backed threat actors from over 50 countries. They have alerted their customers of more than 50,000 attempted of state-sponsored phishing or malware attempts, in…
A Twitter glitch occurred after most of the Facebook users migrated while Zuckerberg’s platform was down. Since the start of the outage, everything looked just like a domino game. Massive migration determined the Twitter glitch Soon after Facebook went down…
VoIP.ms, Canada’s only VoIP provider, is still struggling with a week-long, massive ransom distributed denial of-service (DDoS) attack. Everything began on September 16th. The company, which provides internet telephony services to businesses across the US and Canada…
