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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 …

SonicWall’s Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) has released a critical update for its SMA1000 series appliances due to a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-2170, with a CVSS base score of 7.2. The flaw in the SMA1000 appliances’ WorkPlace interface allows unauthenticated remote attackers to send unauthorized …