Hackers
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Breaches
French Electricity Provider Fined for Storing Users’ Passwords with Weak MD5 Algorithm
By: Ravie Lakshmanan The French data protection watchdog on Tuesday fined electricity provider Électricité de France €600,000 for violating the…
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Breaches
Irish Regulator Fines Facebook $277 Million for Leak of Half a Billion Users’ Data
By: Ravie Lakshmanan Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has levied fines of €265 million ($277 million) against Meta Platforms for…
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IoT
New P2P Botnet Targeting IoT Devices
By: Ravie Lakshmanan Cybersecurity researchers have taken the wraps off a new botnet hijacking Internet-connected smart devices in the wild…
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IoT
IoT Security, Attacks And The Industrial Systems at Risk
IoT Vulnerabilities And Industrial Sector Risks Hackers could target smart manufacturing and other industrial environments with new and unconventional cyber…
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Breaches
Indian Government Publishes Draft of Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2022
By: Ravie Lakshmanan The Indian government on Friday released a draft version of the much-awaited data protection regulation, making it…
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Breaches
Medibank Refuses to Pay Ransom After 9.7 Million Customers Exposed in Ransomware Hack
By: Ravie Lakshmanan Australian health insurer Medibank today confirmed that personal data belonging to around 9.7 million of its current…