Meal-kit company HelloFresh is the latest brand to receive a major fine from the UK’s privacy regulator, after it was found to have overwhelmed consumers with 80 million spam messages. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) levied a £140,000 penalty on the Berlin-headquartered company after an investigation begun in March 2022 following complaints from the public. […]
The Anonymous Collective has orchestrated an alleged cyberattack on Bahrain, pointing to the country’s support for the US and UK strikes on Yemen. According to the hacker collective, the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack has affected several websites, including prominent media outlets like Akhbar al-Khaleej, Al-Ayam, Gulf Daily News, and Al-Bilad. As of now, some news […]
The British Library has begun restoring its online services as it continues to recover from last year’s ransomware attack. Sir Roly Keating, Chief Executive at the institution, confirmed in a blog post that the main British Library catalogue will return online on Monday, January 15. This includes details of its printed books, journals, maps, music […]
The notorious Azorult malware has resurfaced on the dark web again, demonstrating a renewed and sophisticated approach. First identified in 2016, Azorult operates as a powerful information-stealing threat, specializing in the extraction of sensitive data such as browsing history, login credentials, and cryptocurrency details. Cyble Research & Intelligence Labs (CRIL) recently found several PDF files […]
Jan 15, 2024NewsroomServer Security / Cyber Attack The environmental services industry witnessed an “unprecedented surge” in HTTP-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, accounting for half of all its HTTP traffic. This marks a 61,839% increase in DDoS attack traffic year-over-year, web infrastructure and security company Cloudflare said in its DDoS threat report for 2023 Q4 published […]
Microsoft will store all cloud customers’ personal data within the European Union rather than allowing transfers abroad, the company said on Thursday — the latest step in ongoing efforts by cloud providers to navigate varying privacy regulations across jurisdictions. Under the new policy, Microsoft will keep within what it calls the “EU data boundary” all […]
UK law firms are falling victim to data breaches primarily because of insiders and human error, according to an analysis of data from the the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). NetDocuments examined data from the ICO covering Q3 2022 to Q2 2023 and found that 60% of data breaches in the UK legal sector were the […]
The Beijing Wangshendongjian Judicial Appraisal Institute Institute’s claim that AirDrop’s anonymization techniques can be easily circumvented raises concerns about the vulnerability of user identities and the potential for surveillance.
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) , Standards, Regulations & Compliance E-Commerce Giant Accuses Luxembourg Regulators of Attacking the Company Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • January 12, 2024 Amazon squared off against the Luxembourg data protection authority in court on Tuesday over a privacy fine. (Image: Shutterstock) Amazon in a Luxembourg court Tuesday contested a […]