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Panaseer: US companies hit with $155 million class action payouts over cyber failures

Panaseer, a leader in cybersecurity posture management powered by Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM), has revealed new insights into the mounting legal and financial toll of data breaches on US companies. According to its analysis of data breach-related settlements and filings from the last six months, poor cybersecurity is costing US organizations millions of dollars in fines, settlements […]

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Closed Door Security responds to Swedish social media backdoor access news

It has been reported that Swedish authorities are pushing for a law allowing backdoors to be embedded into Signal and WhatsApp, so they can access encrypted communications. In response to the news, William Wright, CEO of Closed Door Security, offers his thoughts. “It’s concerning that authorities from two Western governments have requested backdoors into popular software

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Belgian AI firm builds groundbreaking new AI tool that detects online hate speech in all European languages

A Belgian AI startup – a spin-off out of the University of Antwerp, has developed a “groundbreaking” new AI tool designed to detect online hate speech in all official European languages, which represents “another major step forward in the fight against hate speech and disinformation on the internet”, the company believes. The AI spin-off called

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New ‘Think Before you Link’ app to counter malicious approaches online

A new app, allowing users of social media and professional networking sites, to better identify the hallmarks of fake profiles used by foreign spies and other malicious actors, and take steps to report and remove them, has been launched today. In the last year, over 10,000 UK nationals from across society have been targeted on

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Tenable | YouTube shorts a haven for scammers using stolen TikTok videos

Satnam Narang, Staff Research Engineer at Tenable, has published the research as part of a wider foray into the murky world of social scammers. According to new research from Tenable, scammers are stealing existing short-form videos from TikTok and reposting them to YouTube Shorts, racking up millions of views and gaining tens of thousands of

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SOS Opinion | Facebook becomes Meta, but will this improve online safety?

After renaming Facebook to Meta, Zuckerberg says the brands’ ‘mission remains the same’ – but are sufficient changes needed when facebook’s online safety practices are labelled as being ‘in the gutter?’ On Thursday at Facebook’s Connect conference, CEO Mark Zuckerburg announced that the social media giant will change the name of its holding company to

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Opinion | The convincing scam of Elon Musk

Erich Kron, Security Awareness Advocate at KnowBe4 gives his feedback on the recent cryptocurrency scam of Elon Musk as he was hosting the popular NBC show, Saturday Night Live Last week, twitter scammers jumped on Elon Musk’s hosting of Saturday Night Live to push cryptocurrency scams with the intention of stealing people’s Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin.

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Data breach roundtable | LinkedIn shadows Facebook’s error

Earlier this week, Facebook was involved in a massive data breach that compromised the personal data of 533 million users. Now, there is news of another huge data leak involving LinkedIn with 500 million users’ data being compromised, according to reports. Information that has been leaked includes full names, email addresses, phone numbers, genders, links

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European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2021 now open for nominations

Nominations for the European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards are now open until 14th May, recognising the best blogs and podcasts in the cybersecurity industry. All blogs, vlogs, podcasts or social media accounts must be focused on information security issues and have a European presence or audience.  Hosted by Eskenzi PR and sponsored by KnowBe4 and Qualys,

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