Tuesday, January 22
TOP STORY
Google is being fined €50m by CNIL, the French data protection authority. It is the first big fine under the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) so people will be watching closely. And Washington Post reports that US Regulators have met to discuss fining Facebook for privacy violations.
TWEET OF THE DAY
Why path traversal vulnerabilities often "work" better on Windows. E.g. CVE-2018-1999002. (An arbitrary file read vulnerability in Jenkins/Stapler discovered by @orange_8361) - @ulldma
OTHER ARTICLES WE’RE READING
WhatsApp limiting text forwards to combat disinformation and rumorville
NSA trolling at Shmoo. Well played.
Sloppy OpSec tales: Lookout researchers dug into spyware companies, and a British hitman got convicted for murder because he wore his Garmin watch.
Everything you need to know to hack Stanford by Jack Cable
Are you part of the Patriots club? BlackRock inadvertently posted PII on thousands of financial advisors on its iShares account. The sheets included phrases like “dabbler” and “power user”.
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