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Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd., the Irish subsidiary of Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc., was been fined €265 million ($274 million) today by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission for breaching the European Union General Data Protection Regulation. The commission launched an investigation in April …
5.4M records stolen from Twitter released for free on hacking forum
Some 5.4 million records belonging to Twitter Inc. users that were stolen in December have been released for free on a well-known hacking forum. The breach first emerged in July when a threat actor offered the 5.4 million records for sale for …
Apple facing 6M iPhone 14 Pro shortage due to ongoing issues at Foxconn factory
Apple Inc. may be facing a shortage of 6 million iPhone 14 Pro smartphones this year amid ongoing turmoil at the Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd. factory in Zhengzhou, China. Referencing people familiar with assembly operations, Vlad Savov at Bloomberg describes the …
New Fortinet service offers next-gen firewall protection for AWS environments
Cybersecurity firm Fortinet Inc. today announced the availability of FortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall on Amazon Web Services Inc., a managed next-generation service specifically designed for AWS environments. FortiGate CNF incorporates FortiGuard artificial intelligence-powered Security Services for real-time detection of and protection against malicious external and …
142 arrested in global takedown of ‘iSpoof’ spoofing service
Police have arrested 142 people as part of a global operation to take down “iSpoof,” an online spoofing service that allowed cybercriminals to mask their phone numbers as belonging to a trusted organization. Operation Elaborate was launched in June 2021 and involved …
Android manufacturers fail to provide patches for Mali GPU vulnerabilities
Google Project Zero, a group of security analysts employed by Google LLC to find vulnerabilities, warns that Android phone makers have failed to provide patches to several vulnerabilities discovered earlier this year in the Mali graphics processing unit. The five medium-severity security …
Microsoft warns hackers are targeting long-discontinued Boa web server
Microsoft Corp. is warning that a long-discontinued web server is being targeted by hackers to gain access to industrial control systems, primarily in India. As detailed Tuesday by the Microsoft Security Threat Intelligence unit, the attacks, first reported by Recorded Future in April, …
New Black Basta ransomware campaign is actively targeting US companies
Cybersecurity technology company Cybereason Inc. today issued a warning that an aggressive new ransomware campaign from the Black Basta ransomware group is targeting U.S. companies. Black Basta first emerged in April and is believed to be an offshoot of the infamous Conti …
Report warns of urgent need to address cybersecurity in offshore oil and gas infrastructure
A recent report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office warns that there’s an urgent need to address cybersecurity risks to offshore oil and gas infrastructure. The findings came after GAO was asked to review the cybersecurity of the more than 1,600 U.S. …
Autodesk shares drop on lower-than-expected outlook
Shares in Autodesk Inc. dropped in late trading after the computer-aided design software company issued a lower-than-expected outlook in its latest earnings report. For the third quarter that ended Oct. 31, Autodesk reported earnings before costs such as stock compensation of $1.70 per share …