License plate cameras may be next target after Supreme Court reins in location tracking
If a warrant is ultimately needed for ALPR searches, experts say, it would radically limit how the networks of cameras can be used and would change modern po...
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Unpatched XRING Flaw in XQUIC Lets Remote Clients Crash HTTP/3 Servers
A single wrong variable on one line in XQUIC, Alibaba's QUIC and HTTP/3 library, lets any remote client crash the server with a short burst of completely leg...
Former Ransomware Negotiator Sentenced to 70 Months in Prison for Secretly Helping BlackCat Gang
A former ransomware negotiator was sentenced to nearly six years for secretly helping BlackCat extort victims while betraying his clients. A U.
EU takes member states to court over unimplemented cybersecurity law
Ireland, Spain, France and the Netherlands are more than 20 months late in transposing the NIS2 Directive for the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure.
7 arrested in Vietnam for operating large anime piracy site HiAnime
HiAnime, which operated under various domains including Zoro.to and Aniwatch, provided free access to a vast library of anime, attracting hundreds of million...
Avalon Malware Uses Legal Document Lure to Deliver CrownX Ransomware Capabilities
A previously undocumented malware framework, tracked as Avalon, that uses a spoofed legal-document lure and a multi-stage, fileless-oriented chain to deliver...
Europe Confirms Record €4.1B Penalty Against Google for Android Practices
EU’s top court upheld a €4.1B fine against Google, ruling it abused Android’s market dominance through restrictive licensing practices.
Supreme Court decision threatens EU-US data transfer agreement
In a Tuesday letter, Max Schrems, the founder of the Vienna-based privacy advocacy organization noyb, told European officials he plans to sue to invalidate t...
Google loses final appeal to overturn €4.1 billion EU fine
Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has dismissed Google's final appeal against a €4.1 billion ($4.
US DOJ seizes nearly 400 domains used for illegal World Cup streaming
The US Justice Department's Criminal Division, in coordination with the International Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property (ICHIP) network, took down t...
Supreme Court limits geofence search warrants, bolsters privacy rights
In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures applies to location data collect...
Justices rule that cellphone location histories are protected by the Fourth Amendment
Police must get a warrant to request geofence data involving individual cellphones, the U.S.
Supreme Court delivers ‘major win’ for tech privacy in Chatrie ruling
Dissenting justices who criticized the ruling said it would have “seismic” implications for the Fourth Amendment. The post Supreme Court delivers ‘major win’...
US racks up about 400 wins over illegal World Cup streaming sites
The World Cup’s organizing body, FIFA, helped identify hundreds of domains taken down in an action organized by the U.S.
US seizes hundreds of FIFA World Cup illegal streaming domains
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GDPR at 10: Landmark data protections, increasing business burden
Ten years have passed since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force, and the results are mixed. While data protection has become more f...
In a first, a court takedown goes after two cybercrime tools at once
Microsoft, with law enforcement and industry partners, disrupted more than 200 command and control servers for Amadey and StealC, often used in conjunction. ...
Court rules SAVE database illegal, orders it dismantled
A judge said the administration’s database violates the Privacy Act, the Social Security Act and the Administrative Procedures Act. The post Court rules SAVE...
Flock Cameras Are Being Used for Stalking
There are over a dozen cases around the country where police officers are using the Flock surveillance camera system to obsessively and illegally stalk peopl...
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