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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Global Police Crackdown Arrests 5,000, Shuts Down Sites A global police crackdown in June and July against illegal sports gambling led to thousands of arrests and website shutdowns while also disrupting scam centers and their related human trafficking and money laundering operations, Interpol reported Thursday. They arrested 5,100 people, recovered $59 million in proceeds and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Cyberspace Solarium Commission created a list six years ago of things the government should be doing with regard to cybersecurity policy. The commission made 82 recommendations and each year some of them have been enacted into law, usually as part of the national defense authorization act (NDAA), a must pass bill that funds the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Now North Korea Using Fake IT Workers to Extort Employers Scams evolve. Now that the scam concept is public, North Korea is pivoting. They are extorting the companies that hire these North Koreans as IT employees after the employees steal corporate secrets. Read the details here. SURPRISE! (Not) – OpenAI Confirms Attackers use ChatGPT to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to a report that cloud security vendor Tenable released this week: In the first half of this year, 38% of organizations had at least one cloud workload that was critically vulnerable, highly privileged, and publicly exposed, according to a study of telemetry from customers of cloud security vendor Tenable released this week. Overall, the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Microsoft Confirms MMC Bug Being Exploited – No Patch I could tell you to patch the bug but, for the 23rd time this year, the bug is being exploited in the wild and there is no patch. The bug, rated 7.8/10, is in the Microsoft Management Console tool and it was not among the 119 […]
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