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ByteDance agreed to pay $92M in US privacy Settlement for TikTok data collection

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users for illegal data collection. The Chinese firm was accused to have failed to get the users’ consent to collect data in compliance with the Illinois biometric privacy law. If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here. SecurityAffairs – hacking, privacy).

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Poland and Lithuania fear that data collected via FaceApp could be misused

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Many security experts are warning of the risks of using the popular app, threat actors could be potentially interested in data collected by FaceApp. The post Poland and Lithuania fear that data collected via FaceApp could be misused appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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North Korean APT group Kimsuky allegedly hacked South Korea’s atomic research agency KAERI

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Currently, the Atomic Energy Research Institute is investigating the subject of the hacking and the amount of damage, etc. ? SecurityAffairs – hacking, North Korea). The post North Korean APT group Kimsuky allegedly hacked South Korea’s atomic research agency KAERI appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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META hit with privacy complaints by EU consumer groups

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Consumer groups assert that Meta is not adhering to various rules established by the European privacy regulation GDPR: Fair Processing (Article 5(1)(a)): Personal data must be processed lawfully, fairly, and transparently. Consumer groups claim that Meta’s data collection is unfair and lacks transparency.

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Fortune-telling website WeMystic exposes 13M+ user records

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Businesses employ MongoDB to organize and store large swaths of document-oriented information. While WeMystic has since closed the database, researchers said that the data was accessible for at least five days. One of the data collections in the exposed instance, named “users,” contained a whopping 13.3

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Google agreed to settle a $5 billion privacy lawsuit

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. “Judge Rogers had rejected Google’s bid to have the case dismissed earlier this year, saying she could not agree that users consented to allowing Google to collect information on their browsing activity.” Google has yet to respond to a request for comment on the settlement.

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Operation Blacksmith: Lazarus exploits Log4j flaws to deploy DLang malware

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The North Korea-linked APT group Lazarus is behind a new hacking campaign that exploits Log4j vulnerabilities to deploy previously undocumented remote access trojans (RATs). ” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, APT) .”

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