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Ireland’s Data Protection Commission fined TikTok €530 million ($601 million) on Friday for violating data protection laws by transferring European users’ data to China. “TikTok infringed the GDPR regarding its transfers of EEA [European Economic Area] User Data to China and its transparency requirements,” the DPC said in a statement. …

Microsoft is focusing on eliminating password-based authentication, promoting passwordless sign-in and sign-up methods instead. For the past decade, Microsoft has allowed users to sign in using facial recognition, fingerprints, or a PIN with Windows Hello. Now, over 99% of users use this method to access their Windows devices, according to …

South Korea’s largest mobile operator, SK Telecom, is warning that a malware infection allowed threat actors to access sensitive USIM-related information for customers. SK Telecom is the largest mobile network operator in South Korea, holding approximately 48.4% of the mobile phone service market in the country, corresponding to 34 million subscribers. The …

SSL.com has revealed a major security flaw in its domain validation system, which could enable attackers to acquire fake SSL certificates for domains they do not own. David Zhao, a senior researcher at CitadelCore Cyber Security Team, reported a flaw that allows manipulation of the system to issue certificates for …

According to Shadowserver Foundation around 17,000 Fortinet devices worldwide have been compromised using a new technique called “symlink”. This number has increased from the initial 14,000 and is expected to rise as investigations continue. The attack takes advantage of known vulnerabilities in Fortinet’s FortiGate devices. After gaining access, the threat …

MITRE Vice President Yosry Barsoum warned that U.S. government funding for the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) and Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) programs ends today, potentially disrupting the global cybersecurity industry. CVE, the more important of the two, is managed by MITRE with support from the U.S. National Cyber Security …

PwC has ceased operations in more than a dozen countries that its global bosses have deemed too small, risky or unprofitable, as it seeks to avoid a repeat of scandals that have plagued the accounting network. The Big Four accounting firm, which operates as a global network of locally owned …

A threat actor is reportedly advertised to sell a zero-day exploit for Fortinet’s FortiGate firewalls on a dark web forum. The exploit claims allow attackers to remotely execute code and access configurations on FortiOS without needing credentials, potentially taking control of vulnerable devices. Cybersecuritynews reported the forum post observed by …

RamiGPT is an AI security tool that targets root accounts. Using PwnTools and OpwnAI, it quickly navigated privilege escalation scenarios on various VulnHub systems, achieving root access in under a minute. Configuration: Setting Up Your OpenAI API Key: To use RamiGPT, you need an OpenAI API key. Here’s how to …

OpenAI has increased its maximum bug bounty payout to $100,000, up from $20,000, to encourage the discovery of critical vulnerabilities in its systems and products. The new bounty program is part of OpenAI’s broader security efforts, which also include funding research projects, ongoing adversarial testing, and collaboration with open-source software …