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The Indian President Droupadi Murmu on Friday granted assent to the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill after it was unanimously passed by both houses of the parliament last week, marking a significant step towards securing people's information. "The Bill provides for the processing of digital personal data in a manner that recognizes both the rights of the individuals to protect their personal data and the need to process such personal data for lawful purposes and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto," the Indian government said.

The latest full new version of Firefox is out, marking the first of two "Monthly" upgrades you'll see this month. Firefox version upgrades happen every 28 days, rather than once a month, so whenever a release comes out early enough in the month, there will be a second upgrade squeezed in at the end.

The numerical score can be represented as a qualitative severity rating to help organizations properly assess and prioritize their vulnerability management processes and prepare defences against cyber-attacks.CVSS version 1 was released in February 2005, developed then by a small group of pioneers with the aim of industry-wide adoption, with FIRST appointed that April to drive the future development of what would become a critical tool in the sector's arsenal.

What's old is new again, with researchers seeing a threefold increase in malware distributed through USB drives in the first half of 2023. Previously, in November 2022, the cybersecurity company highlighted a China-nexus campaign leveraging USB devices to infect entities in the Philippines with four distinct malware families.