Google Hit With $2.7 Billion Antitrust Fine

Search giant Google this week was hit with a hefty $2.7 billion fine seven years in the making. Antitrust officials with the European Commission handed out the fine, which translates to €2.4 billion. Regulators with the EC claim the company abused its dominance as a search engine to push its...

Google Gets Record-Breaking $2.7 Billion Fine for Manipulating Search Results

Google has just lost its biggest regulatory battle! Google has been hit with a record-breaking $2.7 billion €2.42 billion fine by the European antitrust officials for unfairly manipulating search results since 2008. After a lengthy seven-year investigation that was launched in 2010 after several...

GDPR Readiness – Calculate Your Return on Security Investment (ROSI)

What is the cost of a data breach? Assuming annual revenue of £30M, a single fine could be as much as a whopping £1.2M—the maximum 4%—when the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR becomes effective in May 2018. Compare that to a database control cost factor of £750K, the cost ...

Smart TV Maker Fined $2.2 Million For Spying on Its 11 Million Users

Your government is spying on you! Businesses are spying on you! Your phone and browser are constantly spying on you! Even your TV is spying on you! Yes, you should also worry about your "smart" TV, as one of the world's biggest smart TV makers Vizio has been caught secretly collecting its...

RHEL 6 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2017:0113)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2017:0113 advisory. The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirement...

Ashley Madison Dating Site Agrees to Pay $1.6 Million Fine Over Massive Breach

Ashley Madison, an American most prominent dating website that helps married people cheat on their spouses has been hacked, has agreed to pay a hefty fine of $1.6 Million for failing to protect account information of 36 Million users, after a massive data breach last year. Yes, the parent company...

libvirt: Directory traversal

Background libvirt is a C toolkit for manipulating virtual machines. Description Normally, only privileged users can coerce libvirt into creating or opening existing files using the virStorageVol APIs; and such users already have full privilege to create any domain XML. But in the case of...

TalkTalk Telecom Ordered to Pay Record £400,000 Fine Over 2015 Data Breach

TalkTalk, one of the biggest UK-based Telecoms company with 4 million customers, has been issued with a record £400,000 $510,000 fine for failings to implement the most basic security measures to prevent the hack that made global headlines last year. The penalty has been imposed by the Informatio...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: drupal7-panels-3.7-1.fc23

The Panels module allows a site administrator to create customized layouts for multiple uses. At its core it is a drag and drop content manager that lets you visually design a layout and place content within that layout. Integration with other systems allows you to create nodes that use this,...

Hacker Who Hacked Official Linux Kernel Website Arrested in Florida

Around five years after unknown hackers gained unauthorized access to multiple kernel.org servers used to maintain and distribute the Linux operating system kernel, police have arrested a South Florida computer programmer for carrying out the attack. Donald Ryan Austin, a 27-year-old programmer...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: collectd-5.5.2-1.fc23

collectd is a small daemon written in C for performance. It reads various system statistics and updates RRD files, creating them if necessary. Since the daemon doesn't need to startup every time it wants to update the files it's very fast and easy on the system. Also, the statistics are very fine...

The Pirate Bay Founder Ordered to Pay $395,000 Fine in Lawsuit he didn't even know about

One of the founders of notorious file-sharing website The Pirate Bay has been ordered to pay a fine worth nearly US$400,000 to several major record labels after their content was shared illegally via the platform. The penalty has been imposed on The Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde by a court in...

Russia to get rid of Android and iOS by launching its own Mobile Operating System

Last month, it was reported that the European Commission is planning to impose a record antitrust fine of about 3 BILLION euros US$3.4 Billion on Google for violating antitrust laws. Not just Europe, Google also lost an anti-monopoly appeal in Russia two months back against ruling for violating i...

dart.fine-art.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-153135 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| dart.fine-art.com Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Remediation Guide:| OWASP XSS Prevention Cheat...

France could Fine Apple $1 Million for each iPhone it Refuses to Unlock

The United States is not the only one where Apple is battling with the federal authorities over iPhone encryption. Apple could face $1 Million in Fine each time the company refused to unlock an iPhone in France. Despite its victory in a New York court yesterday, Apple may not be so successful...

jomashop.com XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://www.jomashop.com/fine-gifts.html?dir=desc=bestsellers=true" Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| Yes, at 26.07.2017 Latest check for patch:| 26.07.2017 16:20 GMT Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| 4708 Google Pagerank| 3...

China Passes Anti-Terrorism Law; Here's What You Need to Know

If you rely on encrypted services to keep your data private and, unfortunately, you are in China, then you are about to be worried. As of now Chinese government could snoop into the operations of technology companies as well as circumvent privacy protections in everyday gadgets. China So-called...

fine-arts-museum.be XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-92484 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| fine-arts-museum.be Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Remediation Guide:| OWASP XSS Prevention Chea...

gibsonfineart.ca XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://www.gibsonfineart.ca/Search.cfm Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 25.07.2017 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| Unknown / Not calculated Google Pagerank| 3 VIP website status:| No Check...

Oracle Solaris Third-Party Patch Update : php (cve_2013_4248_input_validation)

The remote Solaris system is missing necessary patches to address security updates : - The opensslx509parse function in openssl.c in the OpenSSL module in PHP before 5.4.18 and 5.5.x before 5.5.2 does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the Subject Alternative Name field of a...