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Meta also replaces a legacy C++ media-handling security library with Rust

Users of Meta's WhatsApp messenger looking to simplify the process of protecting themselves are in luck, as the company is rolling out a new feature that combines multiple security settings under a single, toggleable option. …

Plus, the gang says it got in via Microsoft Entra SSO

ShinyHunters says it stole several slices of data from Panera Bread, but that's just the yeast of everyone's problems. The extortionist gang also claims to have stolen data from CarMax and Edmunds, in addition to three other organizations it posted to its blog last week.…

Reports say Salt Typhoon attackers accessed handsets of senior govt folk

Chinese state-linked hackers are accused of spending years inside the phones of senior Downing Street officials, exposing private communications at the heart of the UK government.…

French govt says state-run service 'Visio' will be more secure. Now where have we heard that name before?

France has officially told Zoom, Teams, and the rest of the US videoconferencing herd to take a hike in favor of its own homegrown app.…

Austrian education ministry unaware of tracking software until campaigners launched case

Updated  Microsoft illegally installed cookies on a school pupil's devices without consent, according to a ruling by the Austrian data protection authority (DSB).…

Victim and Big Brother Watch will argue the Met's policies are incompatible with human rights law

The High Court will hear from privacy campaigners this week who want to reshape the way the Metropolitan Police is allowed to use live facial recognition (LFR) tech.…

Another actively abused Office bug, another emergency patch – Office 2016 and 2019 users are left with registry tweaks instead of fixes.

Microsoft has issued an emergency Office patch after confirming a zero-day flaw is already being used in real world attacks.…

Atlassian, RingCentral, ZoomInfo also among tech targets

ShinyHunters has targeted around 100 organizations in its latest Okta single sign-on (SSO) credential stealing campaign, according to researchers and the criminal group itself.…