Security News

Hackers Hijack Unsecured Jupyter Notebooks to Stream Illegal Sports Broadcasts
2024-11-19 14:00

Malicious actors are exploiting misconfigured JupyterLab and Jupyter Notebooks to conduct stream ripping and enable sports piracy using live streaming capture tools. The attacks involve the hijack...

Discord blocked in Russia and Turkey for spreading illegal content
2024-10-09 13:37

Discord has been suddenly blocked in Russia and Turkey since yesterday due to illegal activity residing on the platform, leaving legitimate users in those countries unable to visit the website or...

Clearview AI Faces €30.5M Fine for Building Illegal Facial Recognition Database
2024-09-04 08:43

The Dutch Data Protection Authority (Dutch DPA) has imposed a fine of €30.5 million ($33.7 million) against facial recognition firm Clearview AI for violating the General Data Protection...

Data watchdog fines Clearview AI $33M for 'illegal' data collection
2024-09-03 15:30

Selfie-scraper again claims European law does not apply to it The Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) has fined controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI €30.5 million ($33 million)...

Meta Settles for $1.4 Billion with Texas Over Illegal Biometric Data Collection
2024-07-31 04:38

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, agreed to a record $1.4 billion settlement with the U.S. state of Texas over allegations that it illegally collected biometric data of millions of users without their permission, marking one of the largest penalties levied by regulators against the tech giant. The development arrived more than two years after the social media behemoth was sued for unlawfully capturing facial data belonging to Texas without their informed consent as is required by the law.

Five men convicted for operating illegal streaming site Jetflicks
2024-06-21 15:20

A federal jury in Las Vegas convicted five men for their involvement in the operation of Jetflicks, one of the largest and most popular illegal streaming services in the United States. Jetflicks operated for 12 years, from its launch in 2007 until its shutdown by the FBI in 2019.

FCC fines major wireless carriers over illegal location data sharing
2024-04-30 12:56

The Federal Communications Commission fined the nation's largest wireless carriers for illegally sharing access to customers' location information without consent and without taking reasonable measures to protect that information against unauthorized disclosure. Wireless carriers shared access to customers' location data.

DOJ Arrests Founders of Crypto Mixer Samourai for $2 Billion in Illegal Transactions
2024-04-25 10:21

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the arrest of two co-founders of a cryptocurrency mixer called Samourai and seized the service for allegedly facilitating over $2...

Meta's pay-or-consent model hides 'massive illegal data processing ops': lawsuit
2024-02-29 13:00

Consumer groups are filing legal complaints in the EU in a coordinated attempt to use data protection law to stop Meta from giving local users a "Fake choice" between paying up and consenting to data collection. Privacy rights folks weren't happy about it from the get-go, with privacy advocacy group noyb, for example, sarcastically noting Meta was basically proposing you pay it in order to enjoy your fundamental rights under EU law.

European Court of Human Rights declares backdoored encryption is illegal
2024-02-15 07:26

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that laws requiring crippled encryption and extensive data retention violate the European Convention on Human Rights - a decision that may derail European data surveillance legislation known as Chat Control. The Court issued a decision on Tuesday stating that "The contested legislation providing for the retention of all internet communications of all users, the security services' direct access to the data stored without adequate safeguards against abuse and the requirement to decrypt encrypted communications, as applied to end-to-end encrypted communications, cannot be regarded as necessary in a democratic society."