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Security News Update for November 1, 2024

Russian Court Fines Google 2 Undecillion Rubles for Blocking YouTube Accounts This is a case of YouTube blocking several Russian TV stations’ YouTube accounts. They are being fined by Russia’s anti-monopoly service from failing to restore the accounts. Google was fined, back in 2020, 100 thousand rubles a day with the fine doubling every week […]

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Security News Update for August 9, 2024

Interpol Recovers Over $40 Mill from Biz Email Compromise Attack INTERPOL has created a global stop-payment mechanism that it can use to recover funds. A company in Singapore thought they were paying a vendor. Instead they paid a hacker. INTERPOL’s Global Rapid Intervention of Payments or I-GRIP was able to recover $39 million out of […]

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Security News Update for Week Ending July 26, 2024

Google Rolls back Decision to Kill Third Party Cookies Firefox and Safari, along with some other smaller browsers already block third party cookies by default. Google said that they would do the same. Google now says that phasing out third party cookies will hurt their revenue stream, uh, will impact online advertising, so they are […]

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USPS Joins Many Others – Shares Customer Data with Meta and Others Without Permission

We see this problem too often. It is because web site operators don’t really understand the impact of their actions in many cases. More importantly, this may impact you and your web site. Okay, lets talk about what the Postal Service did. Magazine publisher Tech Crunch discovered that the USPS was sharing customers’ information with […]

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Are We About to See Another Log4j?

This one is called LINGUISTIC LUMBERJACK. Fluent Bit is a very widely used open source logging package in the cloud. It is used by all major cloud providers. It has been downloaded over 3 billion times just in 2022. Fluent Bit is described as “a lightweight, open-source data collector and processor” which collecting and processing […]

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Security News Update for the Week Ending May 10, 2024

TikTok Sues US Government; Vows to Prevail No surprise here and without taking a side pro or con; ByteDance and TikTok have filed suit in federal court arguing the law violates the US Constitution. TikTok’s CEO Shou Zi Chew says the company expects to win a legal challenge to block the new law. He says […]

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