Meta’s decision to offer an ad-free subscription in the European Union (E.U.) has faced a new setback after regulators accused the social media behemoth of breaching the bloc’s competition rules by forcing users to choose between seeing ads or paying to avoid them. The European Commission said the company’s “pay or consent” advertising model is […]
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A China-nexus cyber espionage group named Velvet Ant has been observed exploiting a zero-day flaw in Cisco NX-OS Software used in its switches to deliver malware. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-20399 (CVSS score: 6.0), concerns a case of command injection that allows an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root on the underlying […]
An Australian man has been charged with running a fake Wi-Fi access point during a domestic flight with an aim to steal user credentials and data. The unnamed 42-year-old “allegedly established fake free Wi-Fi access points, which mimicked legitimate networks, to capture personal data from unsuspecting victims who mistakenly connected to them,” the Australian Federal […]
Prudential Financial, a global financial services company, has revealed that over 2.5 million people had their personal information compromised in a February data breach. […]
This blog is markedly different from any other I have posted on our website. While we have responded to a few Requests for Proposal (RFP) or Requests for Information (RFI) over the past 15 years, the Cloud Security Alliance has never issued one ourselves, until now.Technology is moving at a breakneck pace, the fastest it […]
CDK Global says that its dealer management system (DMS), impacted by a massive IT outage following a June 18th ransomware attack, will be back online by Thursday for all car dealerships. […]
An Australian man was charged by Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) for allegedly conducting an ‘evil twin’ WiFi attack on various domestic flights and airports in Perth, Melbourne, and Adelaide to steal other people’s email or social media credentials. […]
Cisco has patched an NX-OS zero-day exploited in April attacks to install previously unknown malware as root on vulnerable switches. […]
A trio of security flaws has been uncovered in the CocoaPods dependency manager for Swift and Objective-C Cocoa projects that could be exploited to stage software supply chain attacks, putting downstream customers at severe risks. The vulnerabilities allow “any malicious actor to claim ownership over thousands of unclaimed pods and insert malicious code into many […]
Meet the winners of this year’s Google for Developers Solution Challenge.