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WhatsApp to appeal $266 million fine for violating EU privacy laws

Ireland's Data Privacy Commissioner (DPC) has hit Facebook-owned messaging platform WhatsApp with a €225 million ($266 million) administrative fine for violating the EU's GDPR privacy regulation after failing to inform users and non-users on what it does with their data. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/whatsapp-to-appeal-266-million-fine-for-violating-eu-privacy-laws/
Over 60,000 parked domains were left up for hijacking

Domain registrar MarkMonitor had left more than 60,000 parked domains vulnerable to domain hijacking. The parked domains were seen pointing to nonexistent Amazon S3 bucket addresses, hinting that there existed a domain takeover weakness. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-60-000-parked-domains-were-left-up-for-hijacking/
The Week in Ransomware - September 3rd 2021 - Targeting Exchange

Over the past two weeks, it has been busy with ransomware news ranging from a gang shutting down and releasing a master decryption key to threat actors turning to Microsoft Exchange exploits to breach networks. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/the-week-in-ransomware-september-3rd-2021-targeting-exchange/
Watch out for new malware campaign”s 'Windows 11 Alpha' attachment

Relying on a simple recipe that has proved successful time and time again, threat actors have deployed a malware campaign recently that used a Windows 11 theme to lure recipients into activating malicious code placed inside Microsoft Word documents. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/watch-out-for-new-malware-campaign-s-windows-11-alpha-attachment/
Google's TensorFlow drops YAML support due to code execution flaw

TensorFlow, a popular Python-based machine learning and artificial intelligence project developed by Google has dropped support for YAML, to patch a critical code execution vulnerability. YAML is a convenient choice among developers looking for a human-readable data serialization language. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/googles-tensorflow-drops-yaml-support-due-to-code-execution-flaw/