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Public .env Files Used by Attackers to Breach Cloud and Social Media Accounts

A campaign involving a large-scale extortion operation has targeted various organizations by exploiting publicly accessible .env files containing credentials for cloud and social media...

DOJ and FTC file lawsuit against TikTok for breaching children’s privacy laws

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ), along with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), filed a lawsuit against popular video-sharing platform TikTok for "flagrantly violating"...

Texas reaches $1.4 billion settlement with Meta over unauthorized collection of biometric data

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, reached a landmark $1.4 billion settlement with the state of Texas for allegedly collecting biometric...

Concerns over privacy prompt Brazil to halt Meta’s AI data processing efforts.

Brazil's data protection authority, Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados (ANPD), has issued a temporary ban against Meta from processing users' personal data for...

Telegram Introduces Premium Subscription Service in Exchange for Using Your Phone Number to Send OTPs

In June 2017, a study of more than 3,000 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) students published by the National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER)...

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