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Apple CEO Tim Cook fired off a series of thinly veiled shots at Facebook and other social media companies Thursday, escalating an online privacy battle pitting the iPhone maker against digital services that depend on tracking people to help sell ads. Cook's broadside came as Apple prepares to roll out a new privacy control in the early spring to prevent iPhone apps from secretly shadowing people.

Wondering which data privacy laws affect your area or the type of data you're working with? Find out with this glossary of rules from around the world. The United States is increasingly alone in not having a single overarching data privacy law as more countries adopt new statutes that have much in common with the European Union's General Data Privacy Regulation.

Microsoft's security services grew by $10 billion in 2020, as more companies began utilizing their cloud-based security services. Microsoft released the second quarter of the fiscal year 2021 earnings this week and beat consensus estimates by 7.36%. While most of this growth is attributed to Azure and Xbox, Microsoft's new blog post shows that security services are becoming a larger part of their revenue stream.

Apple has quietly added several anti-exploit mitigations into its flagship mobile operating system in what appears to be a specific response to zero-click iMessage attacks observed in the wild. The new mitigations were discovered by Samuel Groß, a Google Project Zero security researcher who specializes in remote iPhone exploitation and zero-click attacks against mobile messaging systems.

Seven months of working with cybersecurity professionals has made me realise just how unaware many students are when it comes to their online security. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic drove a switch to online learning, most university students needed to use a computer every day.

Researchers have identified an updated malware variant used by the cybercrime gang Rocke Group that targets cloud infrastructures with crypto-jacking attacks. The malware is called Pro-Ocean, which was first discovered in 2019, and has now been beefed-up with "Worm" capabilities and rootkit detection-evasion features.

Today, Microsoft disclosed that they have also been monitoring the targeted attacks against vulnerability researchers for months and have attributed the attacks to a DPRK group named 'Zinc.'. Microsoft tracks hacking group as ZINC. In a new report, Microsoft states that they too have been tracking this threat actor, who they track as 'ZINC,' for the past couple of months as the hackers target pen testers, security researchers, and employees at tech and security companies.

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The $10 billion figure, deliberately broken out during Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's last earnings call, comes from what Redmond describes as "Advanced security and compliance offerings" sold to hundreds of thousands of corporate customers. For business analysts and industry watchers, the windfall is final confirmation that Microsoft has figured out its place as a prominent security vendor after multiple hits-and-misses over the years.