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Ireland's Watchdog Launches Inquiry into Google's AI Data Practices in Europe

The Irish Data Protection Commission DPC has announced that it has commenced a "Cross-Border statutory inquiry" into Google's foundational artificial intelligence AI model to determine whether the tech giant has adhered to data protection regulations in the region when processing the personal dat...

New TikTok Privacy Policy Confirms Chinese Staff Can Access European Users' Data

Popular short-form video-sharing service TikTok is revising its privacy policy for European users to make it explicitly clear that user data can be accessed by some employees from across the world, including China. The ByteDance-owned platform, which currently stores European user data in the U.S...

Apple Revokes Certificate Used By OSX/Dok Malware

Apple revoked a legitimate developer certificate used by hackers behind malware dubbed OSX/Dok, which was able to eavesdrop on secure HTTPS traffic of infected systems. On Sunday, Apple also rolled out an update to its XProtect built-in antimalware software to fend off existing and upcoming...

Pony Botnet Steals $200,000, 700,000 Usernames, Passwords

Attackers leveraged a Pony botnet controller to not only siphon away a large batch of account credentials but also to make off with over $200,000 in Bitcoin and other virtual currencies over a four month span, according to researchers this week. It’s the second high profile instance of the Pony...

Majority of US, European Users Click on Spam

Latest spam report from Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group MAAWG now includes data from European users. More than half 57% of survey adults have responded to spam in such a way that it supports the perpetrators of the spam. This includes opening attachments to an email, forwarding an email or...