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"London Drugs closes all of its pharmacies following 'cybersecurity incident.'"

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London Drugs closes all of its pharmacies following 'cybersecurity incident'

London Drugs stores closed temporarily

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by Jessica Lyons / 18h

Canadian stores shuttered 'until further notice' Updated Canadian pharmacy chain London Drugs closed all of its stores over the weekend until further notice following a "cybersecurity incident."…

Google blocked 2.3M apps from Play Store last year for breaking the G law

Google blocked 2.28 million apps

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by Matthew Connatser / 14h

Third of a million developer accounts kiboshed, too Google says it stopped 2.28 million Android apps from being published in its official Play Store last year because they violated security rules.…

European Commission starts formal probe of Meta over election misinformation

EU to probe Meta handling Russian disinformation

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Europe takes action after Facebook parent withdraws monitoring tool The European Commission has launched formal proceedings against Meta, alleging failure to properly monitor distribution by "foreign actors" of political misinformation before June's European elections.…

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Apple's 'incredibly private' Safari is not so private in Europe

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Infosec eggheads find iGiant left EU iOS 17 users open to being tracked around the web Apple's grudging accommodation of European antitrust rules by allowing third-party app stores on iPhones has left users of its Safari browser exposed to potential web activity tracking.…

AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile US fined $200M for selling off people's location info

FCC fines wireless carriers $200M

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by Thomas Claburn / 13h

Carriers claim real culprits are getting away with it - the data brokers The FCC on Monday fined four major US telcos almost $200 million for "illegally" selling subscribers' location information to data brokers.…

France willing to buy key Atos assets to keep them French

France moves to acquire Atos

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by Dan Robinson / 1d

Finance minister says government has interests in IT giant's 'sovereign activities' The French government has tabled an offer to buy key assets of ailing IT giant Atos after the company late last week almost doubled its estimate of the cash it will need to stay afloat in the near future.…

UK lays down fresh legislation banning crummy default device passwords

New laws in UK protect consumers from cyber

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by Connor Jones / 1d

New laws mean vendors need to make clear how long you'll get updates too Smart device manufacturers will have to play by new rules in the UK as of today, with laws coming into force to make it more difficult for cybercriminals to break into hardware such as phones and tablets.…

Watchdog reveals lingering Google Privacy Sandbox worries

Google delays third-party cookie deprecation

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by Thomas Claburn / 1d

Ad tech rewrite to replace web cookies still not to regulatory taste The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) still has privacy and competition concerns about Google's Privacy Sandbox advertising toolkit, which explains why the ad giant recently again delayed its plan to drop third-party cookies in Chrome until 2025.…

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How SSH Communications Security cuts through the hype around Zero Trust to secure the connections that matter Sponsored Feature As business enters the 2020s, organizations find themselves protecting fast-expanding digital estates using security concepts that are decades old.…

Discord dismantles Spy.pet site that snooped on millions of users

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by Brandon Vigliarolo / 1d

ALSO: Infostealer spotted hiding in CDN cache, antivirus update hijacked to deliver virus, and some critical vulns Updated - Infosec in brief They say sunlight is the best disinfectant, and that appears to have been true in the case of Discord data harvesting site Spy.pet – as it was recently and swiftly dismantled after its existence and purpose became known.…

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