Apr 16, 2024NewsroomPrivacy Breach / Regulatory Compliance The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has ordered the mental telehealth company Cerebral from using or disclosing personal data for advertising purposes. It has also been fined more than $7 million over charges that it revealed users’ sensitive personal health information and other data to third parties for […]
U.S. Judge ordered NSO Group to hand over the Pegasus spyware code to WhatsApp Pierluigi Paganini March 03, 2024 A U.S. Court ordered surveillance firm NSO Group to hand over the source code for its Pegasus spyware and other products to Meta. Meta won the litigation against the Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group, a U.S. Judge ordered […]
Mar 02, 2024NewsroomSpyware / Privacy A U.S. judge has ordered NSO Group to hand over its source code for Pegasus and other products to Meta as part of the social media giant’s ongoing litigation against the Israeli spyware vendor. The decision, which marks a major legal victory for Meta, which filed the lawsuit in October […]
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has ordered Avast to pay $16.5 million and banned the company from selling users’ web browsing data or licensing it for advertising purposes.
A Nigerian national has been jailed for 10 years and one month and ordered to pay almost $1.5m in restitution after being convicted of serious money laundering offenses. Olugbenga Lawal, 33, of Indianapolis, Indiana, was convicted in August last year of conspiring to commit money laundering, after three co-conspirators had already pleaded guilty to the […]
The Philippine defense chief has ordered all defense personnel and the 163,000-member military to refrain from using digital applications that harness artificial intelligence to generate personal portraits, saying they could pose security risks. Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. issued the order in an Oct. 14 memorandum, as Philippine forces have been working to weaken decades-old […]
The US government has ordered all federal civilian agencies to patch a critical vulnerability in Apache RocketMQ, which is currently being exploited in the wild. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added CVE-2023-33246 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. It means government agencies have until September 27 to apply a vendor patch to affected […]