Catalin Cimpanu reports: According to an academic paper published this week, threat actors can launch attacks that leak small bits of information from browsers even when JavaScript is completely disabled, allowing for secret tracking even when users might believe they are safe. Authored by a team of American, Australian, and [Read More…]
Sara Merken reports: Facebook Inc is pushing back on plaintiffs lawyers’ request for nearly $12 million in fees and costs for securing an injunctive relief-only settlement stemming from a 2018 cyberattack that affected millions of Facebook users. […] The litigation stemmed from a September 2018 breach that affected the personal [Read More…]
Bennett Cyphers writes: The third-party cookie is dying, and Google is trying to create its replacement. No one should mourn the death of the cookie as we know it. For more than two decades, the third-party cookie has been the lynchpin in a shadowy, seedy, multi-billion dollar advertising-surveillance industry on the Web; [Read More…]
The following is a translation of an important notice from the Italian guarantor: Against revenge porn, one of the most hateful forms of violence against women and, more generally, against non-consensual pornography, the Guarantor for the protection of personal data has decided to make an emergency channel available on its [Read More…]