Meta Received A $275 Million Fine Following the 2021 Massive Data Leak
The investigation into the 2021 massive Facebook data breach resulted in a $275.5 Million fine for the company, as well as a number of …
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Irish data protection commission fines Meta over 2021 data-scraping leak
Irish data protection commission (DPC) fined Meta for not protecting Facebook’s users’ data from scraping. Meta has been fined €265 …
Top 6 Cell Phone Tracker Apps for Parental Control
Do you have difficulty knowing what your kids are up to when you’re not around? Do you want to ensure they’re not getting into trouble …
UK Privacy Tsar Defends Controversial Enforcement Strategy
The head of the UK’s data protection watchdog has defended a contentious new policy of scaling back fines levied at government entities, …
How social media scammers buy time to steal your 2FA codes
Phishing scams that try to trick you into putting your real password into a fake site have been around for decades. As regular Naked …
Leaky Server Exposing Scraped Data of 150,000 Mastodon Users
An Elasticsearch server is currently scraping posts and public account information on Mastodon users. So far, information of over 150,000 …
Police force published sexual assault victims’ names and addresses on its website
A UK police force has apologised after it published the names and addresses of victims of sexual assault on its website. Suffolk Police …
LOKKER Privacy Edge PRO helps companies identify and mitigate privacy risks
LOKKER launches LOKKER Privacy Edge PRO, a cloud-based software solution that automates the rapid analysis of thousands of websites; …
Fall 2022 SOC 2 Type 2 Privacy report now available
Your privacy considerations are at the core of our compliance work at Amazon Web Services (AWS), and we are focused on the protection of …
Black Friday and retail season – watch out for PayPal “money request” scams
Given that we’re getting into peak retail season, you’ll find cybersecurity warnings with a “Black Friday” theme all over the …
Smashing Security podcast #298: Housing market scams, Twitter 2FA, and the fesshole
Elon Musk is still causing chaos at Twitter (and it’s beginning to impact users), are scammers selling your house without your …
Android Privacy Sandbox Beta to Roll Out By Early 2023
Google has announced plans to roll out the initial Privacy Sandbox Beta to Android 13 mobile devices earlier next year. Initially unveiled …
It’s time. Delete your Twitter DMs
Twitter is in chaos. The company has kicked out thousands of its engineers (as well as thousands of the contractors responsible for …
Google to Pay $392m in Landmark Privacy Case
Google will pay $391.5m to settle a lawsuit filed by dozens of US attorneys general over its location tracking practices. The suit was …