Google can be liable for false AI Overviews, court rules

A German court has ruled that Google can be held directly responsible for defamatory claims produced by its AI Overviews. Basically, the court said that telling people they should double-check AI search results is not enough to deny liability for what those results say. This kind of warning may n...

A week in security (May 12 – May 18)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Data broker protection rule quietly withdrawn by CFPB Meta sent cease and desist letter over AI training Google to pay $1.38 billion over privacy violations Android users bombarded with unskippable ads Last week on ThreatDown: ThreatDown introduces Firewall...

Meta sent cease and desist letter over AI training

EU privacy advocacy group NOYB has clapped back at Meta over its plans to start training its AI model on European users' data. In a cease and desist letter to the social networking giant's Irish operation signed by founder Max Schrems, the non-profit demanded that it justify its actions or risk...

When Efforts to Contain a Data Breach Backfire

Earlier this month, the administrator of the cybercrime forum Breached received a cease-and-desist letter from a cybersecurity firm. The missive alleged that an auction on the site for data stolen from 10 million customers of Mexicos second-largest bank was fake news and harming the banks...

LinkedIn Slams Breach Data Reseller With Cease and Desist Order

LinkedIn is striking back against a website attempting to monetize the 117 million usernames and passwords stolen from the company as part of a 2012 data breach. Website LeakedSource is reporting lawyers representing LinkedIn have served the company a cease and desist order on Wednesday alleging...

LinkedIn Hack Tool Exposes Users' Emails without Exploiting Any Vulnerability

A Free Chrome, Firefox and Safari web browser plugin floating around the web, called 'Sell Hack' allows users to view the hidden email address of any LinkedIn user, means anyone can grab email addresses that we use for professional purposes. When installed, the 'Sell Hack' plugin will pop up a...

LinkedIn Sends Cease-and-Desist to Sell Hack Plug-In Maker

UPDATE: The makers of the controversial Sell Hack browser plug-in responded this afternoon to a cease-and-desist order from LinkedIn and confirmed their extension no longer works on LinkedIn pages and that all of the publicly visible data it had processed from LinkedIn profiles has been deleted...

California issued cease and desist order against Bitcoin Foundation

The Bitcoin Foundation has received a cease-and-desist letter from the California Department of Financial Institutions, which oversees banks, credit unions, and other financial organizations operating in the state. Jon Matonis, who is a board member at the Foundation, revealed the letter on Forbe...

California issued cease and desist order against Bitcoin Foundation

The Bitcoin Foundation has received a cease-and-desist letter from the California Department of Financial Institutions, which oversees banks, credit unions, and other financial organizations operating in the state. Jon Matonis, who is a board member at the Foundation, revealed the letter on Forbe...

Author of LilyJade Facebook Plugin Ignores Facebook Cease-and-Desist

As the tech and investment banking worlds eagerly anticipate Facebook’s long-awaited initial public offering, the world’s largest social network is trying to put stops to a suspicious, but arguably benign, plugin. According to a Brian Krebs report, Dru Mundorff of Arizona is shamelessly selling t...

Sen. Franken Demands Answers From Carrier IQ on Mobile Tracking

The fallout from the controversy surrounding the presence of Carrier IQ’s software on millions of mobile devices on several different platforms has now reached Washington. Sen. Al Franken on Thursday sent a letter to the company, demanding answers to a series of questions about the software and i...