Category: pro
Profit over privacy? Google gives advertisers more personal info in major ‘fingerprinting’ U-turn
Google has reversed its policy on ‘fingerprinting’ ‘Fingerprinting’ is a technique used to collect personal user data Users have very little say over what information is given to advertisers Do you sometimes wish that online advertisers had access to more of your private information without your consent or knowledge? Well,…
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Hell freezes, pigs fly: Rumor has it that Intel could merge with AMD’s former foundry in potential multi-billion deal
GlobalFoundries was spun off when AMD decided to go fabless 16 years ago Thomas Caulfield’s leadership made GloFo profitable; now rumors link him to Intel A merger could help Intel, but regulatory hurdles might block the deal GlobalFoundries (GloFlo) was founded in March 2009 when a struggling AMD spun off…
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DeepSeek blocked from app stores in South Korea
South Korea privacy watchdog has temporarily halted downloads of DeepSeek DeepSeek is working with authorities to get compliant Latest in a series of privacy concerns raised about AI chatbots South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) has temporarily halted new downloads of Chinese-owned AI chatbot DeepSeek. Reports from TechCrunch confirm…
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Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS sees authentication bypass under attack from hackers
Palo Alto Networks fixes authentication bypass PAN-OS flaw A day after the patch was released, criminals started looking for vulnerable endpoints The flaw allows them to run different PHP scripts A vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks firewalls is being abused in in-the-wild attacks, researchers are saying. The company recently found,…
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Amazon EC2 instances under fire from whoAMI attacks potentially giving hackers code execution access
A flaw named WhoAMI was found in Amazon Machine Image It allows threat actors to gain RCE abilities on people’s AWS accounts A fix has been released, but many users are still yet to update Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are potentially vulnerable to a name confusion attack called “whoAMI”,…
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WordPress Foundation bid for greater trademark control halted, adding to more legal setbacks for CEO Matt Mullenweg
Unprotected.org successfully petitions USPTO against the application for Hosted WordPress and Managed WordPress However this is not an absolute denial for the trademarks Move leads some to call Matt Mullenweg’s WordPress leadership into question Since September 2024, WordPress, led by Matthew Mullenweg, has been locked in a battle with WP…
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