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Facebook's parent company Meta has been fined a record $1.3 billion by European Union data protection regulators for transferring the personal data of users in the region to the U.S. In a binding decision taken by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), the social media giant has been ordered to bring its data transfers into compliance with the GDPR and delete unlawfully stored and processed

A financially motivated threat actor of Indonesian origin has been observed leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances to carry out illicit crypto mining operations. Cloud security company's Permiso P0 Labs, which first detected the group in November 2021, has assigned it the moniker GUI-vil (pronounced Goo-ee-vil). "The group displays a preference for Graphical

The record-breaking GDPR penalty for data transfers to the US could upend Meta's business and spur regulators to finalize a new data-sharing agreement.

Categories: Business There are a lot of benefits to ChatGPT, but many in the security community have concerns about it. Malwarebytes' CEO Marcin Kleczynski takes a deep dive into the topic. (Read more...) The post ChatGPT: Cybersecurity friend or foe? appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Plus: The FBI gets busted abusing a spy tool, an ex-Apple engineer is charged with corporate espionage, and collection of airborne DNA raises new privacy risks.

As enterprises adopt multicloud, the security picture has become foggy. Cloud workload protection platforms and distributed firewalls are creating clarity.

A stack-based buffer overflow in the ChangeFriendlyName() function of Belkin Smart Outlet V2 F7c063 firmware_2.00.11420.OWRT.PVT_SNSV2 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted UPNP request.

Available today on all major podcast platforms is The BlueHat Podcast, a new series of security research focused conversations, continuing the themes from the BlueHat 2023 conference (session recordings available to watch here). Since 2005, BlueHat has been where the security research community, and Microsoft, come together as peers: to debate, discuss, share, challenge, celebrate and learn.

Cyberattckers can easily exploit a command-injection bug in the popular device, but Belkin has no plans to address the security vulnerability.

Ubuntu Security Notice 6080-1 - It was discovered that some AMD x86-64 processors with SMT enabled could speculatively execute instructions using a return address from a sibling thread. A local attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information. Zheng Wang discovered that the Intel i915 graphics driver in the Linux kernel did not properly handle certain error conditions, leading to a double-free. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service.