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Signal Foundation Warns Against EU's Plan to Scan Private Messages for CSAM
2024-06-18 16:22

A controversial proposal put forth by the European Union to scan users' private messages for detection child sexual abuse material (CSAM) poses severe risks to end-to-end encryption (E2EE), warned...

Meta Pauses AI Training on EU User Data Amid Privacy Concerns
2024-06-15 07:49

Meta on Friday said it's delaying its efforts to train the company's large language models (LLMs) using public content shared by adult users on Facebook and Instagram in the European Union...

DDoS attacks target EU political parties as elections begin
2024-06-08 14:12

Hacktivists are conducting DDoS attacks on European political parties that represent and promote strategies opposing their interests, according to a report by Cloudflare. Cloudflare reports that it has mitigated at least three distributed denial of service attack waves on various election-related sites in the Netherlands, as well as several political parties.

Russian hacktivists vow mass attacks against EU elections
2024-06-07 10:29

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EU probes Meta over its provisions for protecting children
2024-05-16 15:45

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NATO and EU condemn Russia's cyberattacks against Germany, Czechia
2024-05-03 15:47

NATO and the European Union, with international partners, formally condemned a long-term cyber espionage campaign against European countries conducted by the Russian threat group APT28. Germany said on Friday that the Russian threat group was behind an attack against the Executive Committee of the Social Democratic Party, compromising many email accounts using a Microsoft Outlook zero-day bug.

EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy
2024-04-18 12:19

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Over 100 US and EU orgs targeted in StrelaStealer malware attacks
2024-03-24 14:19

A new large-scale StrelaStealer malware campaign has impacted over a hundred organizations across the United States and Europe, attempting to steal email account credentials. StrelaStealer was first documented in November 2022 as a new information-stealing malware that steals email account credentials from Outlook and Thunderbird.

Opera sees big jump in EU users on iOS, Android after DMA update
2024-03-23 16:59

With iOS 17.4, Apple introduced a new choice screen that asks EU users to select a default web browser from a list of randomly listed browsers, including Opera. Google also rolled out a similar browser choice screen to Android users on March 6th, which will be shown during the initial setup of an Android smartphone or tablet.

Brave: Sharp increase in installs after iOS DMA update in EU
2024-03-12 22:25

Brave has seen a sharp increase in users installing its privacy-focused Brave Browser on iPhones after Apple introduced changes to adhere to the new European Digital Markets Act. To comply with the Digital Markets Act, Apple introduced a new feature in iOS 17.4 that asks EU users to pick a default web browser from a list that includes Brave, among other options.