Profit over privacy? Google gives advertisers more personal info in major ‘fingerprinting’ U-turn

Google has reversed its policy on 'fingerprinting''Fingerprinting' is a technique used to collect personal user dataUsers have very little say over what information is given to advertisers Do you sometimes…

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Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS sees authentication bypass under attack from hackers

Palo Alto Networks fixes authentication bypass PAN-OS flawA day after the patch was released, criminals started looking for vulnerable endpointsThe flaw allows them to run different PHP scriptsA vulnerability in…

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Amazon EC2 instances under fire from whoAMI attacks potentially giving hackers code execution access

A flaw named WhoAMI was found in Amazon Machine ImageIt allows threat actors to gain RCE abilities on people's AWS accountsA fix has been released, but many users are still…

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Not even emoji are safe from hackers – smiley faces can be hijacked to hide data, study claims

Researcher finds a way to add invisible text to emojisIt probably can't be used for malware...probablyIt could be used for watermarking or bypassing human moderationA security researcher claims to have…

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Intel slams Nvidia and AMD, claims chip giants have huge numbers of security flaws

Intel releases its sixth annual Product Security Report, outlining how it addresses security vulnerabilitiesIntel also slammed AMD and Nvidia, sharing unflattering statsClaims AMD has 78 vulnerabilities with no planned fixes,…

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Cybercrime is helping fund rogue nations across the world – and it’s only going to get worse, Google warns

Google's Threat Intelligence report says cybercrime worse than everHealthcare is yet again a top target for cyberattacks Nation-state actors are using cybercrime to raise moneyDespite widespread coverage of cyberattacks from…

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