The Register Microsoft has announced plans to ensure data processing of EU cloud services within the borders of the political bloc in a move that expert observers claim reveals problems with the firm’s existing setup. …
Privacy activist Max Schrems on Microsoft’s EU data move: It won’t keep the NSA away Read More »
ZDNet How do you tell your best friend that her boyfriend has all the charm of a malevolent vole? How do you explain to your doctor that you’ve just contracted a minor ailment after a …
Privacy is just for crooks, says enlightened government agency Read More »
ZDNet Russian cyber attacks are being deployed with new techniques – including exploiting vulnerabilities like the recent Microsoft Exchange zero-days – as its hackers continue to target governments, organisations and energy providers around the world. …
Cybersecurity warning: Russian hackers are targeting these vulnerabilities, so patch now Read More »
Naked Security Usually, when browser updates come out, it’s obvious what to do if you’re running that browser on your laptop or desktop computer. But we often get questions from readers (questions that we can’t …
Firefox for Android gets critical update to block cookie-stealing hole Read More »
The Hacker News InfoSec leaders tend to be a specific type. Their jobs require them to think of possible threats, take actions that may not pay immediate results, plan for unknown security risks, and react …
CISO Challenge: Check Your Cybersecurity Skills On This New Competition Site Read More »
Mullvad The vast amount of data collected today makes it possible to predict political opinions, beliefs, religion, and interests, a collection of data that is strictly forbidden by law. And in great need of abidance. …
Tor Project The Tor Project now has a status page which shows the state of our major services. You can check status.torproject for news about major outages in Tor services, including v3 and v2 onion …
Check the status of Tor services with status.torproject.org Read More »
The Register Researchers at security biz Qualys discovered 21 vulnerabilities in Exim, a popular mail server, which can be chained to obtain “a full remote unauthenticated code execution and gain root privileges on the Exim …
Bleeping Computer Cisco has fixed critical SD-WAN vManage and HyperFlex HX software security flaws that could enable remote attackers to execute commands as root or create rogue admin accounts. Full article
Electronic Frontier Foundation Today’s decision from the Facebook Oversight Board regarding the suspension of President Trump’s account — to extend the suspension for six months and require Facebook to reevaluate in light of the platform’s …
Facebook Oversight Board Affirms Trump Suspension — For Now Read More »
The Register A local authority in East London has committed a classic privacy blunder by emailing what appear to be thousands of residents – while forgetting to use the BCC field and exposing all of …
East London council blurts thousands of residents’ email addresses in To field blunder Read More »
ZDNet A massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack took down the websites of more than 200 organisations across Belgium, including government, parliament, universities and research institutes. The DDoS attack started at 11am on Tuesday …
This massive DDoS attack took large sections of a country’s internet offline Read More »