Sergiu Gatlan
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Sergiu is a news reporter who has covered the latest cybersecurity and technology developments for over a decade. Email or Twitter DMs for tips.
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Phishing Attack Allegedly Targeted US DNC After 2018 Midterms
According to documents added to an amended complaint filed on January 17, the Democratic National Committee says that it was allegedly targeted by a Russian intelligence-coordinated phishing attack just a few days after the 2018 midterms.
- January 18, 2019
- 06:00 PM
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Fallout Exploit Kit is Back with New Vulnerabilities and Payloads
The Fallout exploit kit is back in business after a short downtime, with new tools under its belt: a new Flash exploit for CVE-2018-15982, HTTPS support, a new landing page format, and the capability to deliver payloads using Powershell
- January 18, 2019
- 02:39 PM
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Amazon, Apple, Others Hit with GDPR Complaints, €18.8B Maximum Penalties
Ten GDPR complaints were filed by noyb against Amazon, Apple, DAZN, Spotify, SoundCloud, YouTube, Flimmit, Netflix with the Austrian Data Protection Authority for violations of Article 15, with a maximum penalty across all complaints of €18.8 billion
- January 18, 2019
- 12:50 PM
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Facebook Caught Red Handed While Swiping Money From Children
According to court documents part of a 2012 class-action lawsuit made public by a federal judge at the request of The Center for Investigative Reporting's Reveal, social network giant Facebook has made a habit of charging kids without their parents' knowledge while playing games on its platform .
- January 18, 2019
- 10:09 AM
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ES File Explorer Flaws Put 100 Million Users' Data at Risk, Fix Promised
ES File Explorer users now have to wait to see what issue will be fixed in the next update: the always-on web server giving access to all their files to anyone on the same Wi-Fi network or the MitM attack vulnerability
- January 17, 2019
- 03:20 PM
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Microsoft Launches Azure DevOps Bounty Program
Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) announced the launch of a bug bounty program starting January 17 and targeting the Azure DevOps services and the latest release of Azure DevOps server
- January 17, 2019
- 01:22 PM
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Android Apps Steal Banking Info, Use Motion Sensor to Evade Detection
Two Android apps infected with a banking malware dropper were found on the Google Play Store, already having been installed on thousands of Android devices and sporting dozens of fake five-star ratings.
- January 17, 2019
- 12:00 PM
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Bipartisan Bill Introduced to Ban Sale of US Tech to Chinese Companies
Bipartisan Telecommunications Denial Order Enforcement Act (H.R. 602) was introduced today to impose a ban on selling US technology to Huawei and ZTE, as well as other Chinese companies in violation of sanctions laws and export control.
- January 16, 2019
- 04:30 PM
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EU Copyright Directive to Turn Google into Ghost Town
Google's search results will look like a deserted town according to the search giant, with no article titles, no images, and no news summaries if the SERP templates following the EU Copyright Directive provisions will go live
- January 16, 2019
- 02:03 PM
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Over 140 International Airlines Affected by Major Security Breach
Potential attackers could view and change private information in flight bookings made by millions of customers of major international airlines because of a security issue in the Amadeus online booking system
- January 16, 2019
- 12:02 PM
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NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPUs in Beta on the Google Cloud Platform
The Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud vendor to provide its customers with access to NVIDIA's professional Tesla T4 GPU, via a beta program with instances available for customers from Brazil, India, Netherlands, Singapore, Tokyo, and the United States.
- January 16, 2019
- 09:59 AM
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Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Sites Get Material Design
Google announced the adoption of Material Design in its Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Sites G Suite applications on the web, a new product look and feel which will be turned on by default for all end users
- January 15, 2019
- 06:00 PM
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Microsoft Says Outlook Mobile Now Ready For Pentagon Use
Outlook for iOS and Android can now be used by Department of Defense and Office 365 US Government Community Cloud High customers after their architecture was updated to use native Microsoft sync technology with direct connections to the already compliant Exchange Online backend services
- January 15, 2019
- 03:16 PM
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New York Privacy Bill Forces Businesses to Disclose Consumer Data Use
A bill known as the "Right to know act of 2019" was proposed by New York State Senator Brad Madison Hoylman on January 9 to amend the general business law so that consumers have the right to request personal information that has been collected by a company and is being disclosed to third-parties.
- January 15, 2019
- 01:35 PM
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Microsoft and Walgreens Boots Alliance Establish Health Care Partnership
Microsoft announced a new joint partnership with health care giant Walgreens Boots Alliance aiming to combine the latter's customer reach and experience in health care services with the former's cloud and AI platform.
- January 15, 2019
- 09:54 AM
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