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Santos defended differential privacy against prominent researchers

Fourteen detained as part of Europol operation

The fine followed an inquiry into data processing by Meta in response to a major data breach

Social media ads and accounts help to drive traffic

Data and credentials at risk in the vertical

The E2EE feature was first spotted by mobile researcher Jane Manchun Wong earlier this month

An injury to one is an injury to all. Especially if the other people are part of your social network.

Diplomatic code cracked after 500 years:

In painstaking work backed by computers, Pierrot found “distinct families” of about 120 symbols used by Charles V. “Whole words are encrypted with a single symbol” and the emperor replaced vowels coming after consonants with marks, she said, an inspiration probably coming from Arabic.

In another obstacle, he used meaningless symbols to mislead any adversary trying to decipher the message.

The breakthrough came in June when Pierrot managed to make out a phrase in the letter, and the team then cracked the code with the help of Camille Desenclos, a historian. “It was painstaking and long work but there was really a breakthrough that happened in one day, where all of a sudden we had the right hypothesis,” she said.

New cluster of phishing domains registered using similar naming schemes discovered

The breach affected any account with the “Let others find you by your phone” option enabled