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Meta joins forces with Instagram creators to combat teen sextortion scams
Meta’s Instagram is launching a new anti-sextortion campaign aimed at teens by enlisting popular content creators – all to raise awareness and teach kids how to avoid falling victim to the online scam.
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Bluesky adds half a million users after X policy changes
Bluesky reported adding 500,000 users in a day after X announced changes to its block function and AI training policy.
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TikTok struggling to enforce ban on political ads
A new report has found that TikTok is still unable to consistently enforce its official ban on political advertising. Facebook and YouTube are doing better – although there are caveats.
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Meta employees fired for buying toothpaste with $25 meal credits
More Meta employees have reportedly been fired, this time for abusing perks and buying toothpaste and other home goods with company money.
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AWS CEO on new 5-day in-office work policy: Quit if you don’t like it
Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garmin had a special message for employees up in arms about the company’s new Return-to-the-Office (RTO) policy, essentially telling them to ‘come back or quit.’
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Meta axes jobs at Instagram and WhatsApp
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is reportedly laying off workers in an attempt to conserve and better distribute resources to priority projects.
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Subscription traps no more: FTC introduces one click-to-cancel rule
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has promised to free consumers from a frustrating obstacle course when canceling unwanted subscriptions. The FTC revised a Negative Option Rule, introducing a ‘Click to cancel’ requirement, which will go into effect in six months.
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Iranian hackers set their sights on critical orgs’ passwords, CISA warns
Attackers are focusing on government, IT, energy, and other sectors, aiming to get their hands on access credentials, a prized item among high-level threat actors.
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Elon Musk accused of stealing Optimus, Robovan, and Cybercab designs from ‘I, Robot’
Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, has been accused of stealing content in the past, now a famous film director has come at the billionaire asking for his designs back.
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Wayback Machine back online, days after home entertainment-enabled attacks
Internet Archive, the non-profit digital library, is still in read-only mode while the Wayback Machine’s functionality has been restored. Meanwhile, researchers believe that IoT devices helped to take it down.
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Ticketmaster and Live Nation hit with another class action lawsuit
Live Nation has just been hit with another class action lawsuit over April’s massive Ticketmaster data breach. The filing blames Ticketmaster for failing to protect the personal data of hundreds of millions of users.
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Pennsylvania food bank claimed as latest ransomware victim
A major Pennsylvania food bank, working in tandem with over a thousand other state agencies and nonprofit programs, is claimed by the Fog ransomware group on Tuesday.
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Stress drives cyber pros to their limits
Almost a quarter of chief information security officers (CISOs) and IT higher-ups are considering leaving their jobs. While many report having solid boundaries to deal with stress, others report trying alcohol or even drugs to unwind.
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US invented Volt Typhoon to hide its own cyber espionage, China says
China claims that US intelligence agencies crafted the Volt Typhoon narrative “to win public support and pressure policymakers to allow the extension of invasive US surveillance powers.” Beijing also blames the US for widespread cyber espionage, disinformation operations around the world, and even “choking the internet.”
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Cisco investigating data breach: what we know so far
Hundreds of organizations, including the likes of Amazon, Samsung, Disney, Apple, IBM, and the US military have allegedly been impacted.
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Cheerleading behemoth suffers hacker attack, data exposed
Varsity Brands, a US-based academic garment maker, has reported a breach of its systems. Attackers were able to access the details of tens of thousands of people.
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Pokemon developer discloses breach, extent of leak remains a mystery
Game Freak recently released a statement announcing a data breach, which revealed the personal data of over 2,500 employees.
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Streaming industry snooping on users on industrial scale
A new report has accused the streaming TV industry of operating a huge data-driven surveillance apparatus and further undermining privacy and consumer protection online.
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After breach of billions of records, National Public Data files for bankruptcy
The breach may have impacted hundreds of millions of people. State prosecutors across the US are demanding civil penalties. No wonder National Public Data, a company responsible for a massive leak of Social Security numbers, has filed for bankruptcy.
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Dutch government will replace hackable traffic lights to avoid movie-like carnage
The Dutch government will replace thousands of road traffic lights after a researcher found a serious vulnerability that could be easily exploited by threat actors.
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