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Thus, the controversial Online Harms Bill will be rushed into law, quite possibly strengthened by new classes of offence and bans on anonymity. The Online Harms Bill has been floating around in some form or another for ages, with its inherent contradictions of supporting free speech and technological innovations.
The UK's largest retailer, supermarket titan Tesco, has restored its online operations after an attack hack left its customers unable to order, amend, or cancel deliveries for two days. A Tesco statement acknowledges disruption to the giant's grocery website and app, claiming "An attempt was made to interfere with our systems, which has caused problems with the search function on the site."
Sadly, a lot of the cryptocurrency news that we write about on Naked Security involves cybercriminals getting mixed up in things, often with depressing results. Well, we're delighted to bring you much happier news today of a cryptocurrency "Venture" with a lighter side, this time under the "Leadership" of a certain Mr. Goxx.
"Understanding consumer online security behavior trends is crucial for strengthening cybersecurity across society at large," said Bogdan Botezatu, director, threat research and reporting at Bitdefender. The report, based on a survey that polled more than 10,000 consumer internet users across 11 countries, examines the use of popular online platforms and services, personal cybersecurity practices, level of exposure to threats and more.
Epic Games now requires users to install Epic Online Services to properly use the Launcher. When users launch the Epic Games Launcher, they are greeted with a message stating, "Epic Online Services installation is required - you will not receive any Launcher updates until Epic Online Services is installed. Please see the settings menu."
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are starting to come back online after a BGP routing issue caused an over five-hour worldwide outage. As explained by Giorgio Bonfiglio, a Principal TAM at Amazon AWS, various Facebook routing prefixes had suddenly disappeared from the Internet's BGP routing tables, effectively making it impossible to connect to any services hosted on their IP addresses.
Industry publication giant Sandhills Global has suffered a ransomware attack, causing hosted websites to become inaccessible and disrupting their business operations. Sandhills publishes various printed and hosted trade publications containing industry news and a marketplace for dealers to sell related new and used machinery.
If that makes it sound like the findings of the study point to a low level of consumer confidence in the protection of their online privacy, that would be accurate. The report itself highlights four key takeaways from the data, each of which it said "Demonstrates the growing importance of privacy to the individual and its implications on the businesses and governments that serve them."
Their behaviors online are risky at best and are putting them at risk of cybercrime. Aura hopes to help solve this problem for consumers by providing resources, products and guidance on how to keep your identity, finances and devices safe from online threats." Many people believe they will feel about the same or even less secure in 2030 than they feel online today.
The British consumer champion has repeatedly argued that people are uncomfortable about the amount of data collected and stored by tech companies from online activity and gadgets in the home. Now it has changed tack and commissioned a 111-page report - Value of the Choice Requirement Remedy - that attempts to estimate the amount of money people in the UK would be prepared to pay Facebook and Google in return for greater control over how their data is collected and used.