When the Abyss Looks Back: Unveiling Evolving Dark Patterns in Cookie Consent Banners

To comply with data protection regulations such as the EU General Data Protection Regulation GDPR and the California Consumer Privacy Act CCPA, websites widely deploy cookie consent banners to collect users' privacy preferences. In practice, however, these interfaces often embed dark patterns tha...

Post-Quantum Federated Learning: Secure and Scalable Threat Intelligence for Collaborative Cyber Defense

Collaborative threat intelligence via federated learning FL faces critical risks from quantum computing, which can compromise classical encryption methods. This study proposes a quantum-secure FL framework using post-quantum cryptography PQC to protect cross-organizational data sharing. We expose...

Reddit, porn sites fined by UK regulators over children’s safety and privacy

The UK’s online safety and privacy regulators are targeting companies that violate new age verification laws at both ends : Porn sites that did not keep children out, and mainstream platforms that profited from children coming in. On February 23, media regulator Ofcom fined porn operators that...

Balancing Security and Privacy: The Pivotal Role of AI in Modern Healthcare Systems

As digital threats continue to grow, organizations must find ways to enhance security while protecting user privacy. This paper explores how artificial intelligence AI plays a crucial role in achieving this balance. AI technologies can improve security by detecting threats, monitoring systems, an...

WordPress plugin WP Cookie Notice for GDPR, CCPA & ePrivacy Consent 安全漏洞

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WordPress plugin WP Cookie Notice for GDPR, CCPA & ePrivacy Consent 安全漏洞

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The Privacy Gap in API Security: Why Protecting APIs Shouldn’t Put Your Data at Risk

The more critical APIs become, the more sensitive data they carry identities, payment details, health records, customer preferences, tokens, keys, and more. And this is where organizations face a painful, often invisible problem: To protect APIs, many organizations end up exposing the very data...

EUVD-2023-2866

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SoK: Advances and Open Problems in Web Tracking

Web tracking is a pervasive and opaque practice that enables personalized advertising, retargeting, and conversion tracking. Over time, it has evolved into a sophisticated and invasive ecosystem, employing increasingly complex techniques to monitor and profile users across the web. The research...

CVE-2023-23678

Improper Neutralization of Formula Elements in a CSV File vulnerability in WPEkaClub WP Cookie Consent for GDPR, CCPA & ePrivacy .This issue affects WP Cookie Consent for GDPR, CCPA & ePrivacy : from n/a through 2.2.5...

SoK: Enhancing Privacy-Preserving Software Development from a Developers' Perspective

In software development, privacy preservation has become essential with the rise of privacy concerns and regulations such as GDPR and CCPA. While several tools, guidelines, methods, methodologies, and frameworks have been proposed to support developers embedding privacy into software applications...

South Korea Suspends DeepSeek AI Downloads Over Privacy Violations

South Korea has formally suspended new downloads of Chinese artificial intelligence AI chatbot DeepSeek in the country until the service makes changes to its mobile apps to comply with data protection regulations. Downloads have been paused as of February 15, 2025, 6:00 p.m. local time, the...

WordPress Cookie Consent & Autoblock for GDPR/CCPA plugin <= 1.0.1 - CSRF to Stored Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

CSRF to Stored Cross Site Scripting XSS vulnerability discovered by SOPROBRO in WordPress Plugin Cookie Consent & Autoblock for GDPR/CCPA versions = 1.0.1...

Unmasking the True Cost of Cyberattacks: Beyond Ransom and Recovery

Cybersecurity breaches can be devastating for both individuals and businesses alike. While many people tend to focus on understanding how and why they were targeted by such breaches, there's a larger, more pressing question: What is the true financial impact of a cyberattack? According to researc...