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GDPR Lawsuit Targets Oracle, Salesforce Use of AdTech Cookies

A consumer privacy campaign group, The Privacy Collective, has filed a lawsuit in Amsterdam against Salesforce and Oracle for allegedly violating the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation over the companies' use of cookies and real-time bidding.

GDPR

Researchers Develop Attacks Targeting End-to-End Encryption in Emails

A group of academic researchers have developed practical attacks targeting two widely used end-to-end encryption schemes for email, which could lead to man-in-the-middle decryption attacks and exfiltration of private keys.

Encryption, End to End Encryption

Cryptomining Botnet Steals AWS Credentials

TeamTNT, a crypto-mining botnet, is stealing Amazon Web Services credentials from infected Docker and Kubernetes servers.

Cryptomining

EmoCrash Exploit Helped Slow the Spread of Emotet for Months

The EmoCrash exploit took advantage of a flaw in the Emotet trojan's code to help defenders stop the malware for more than six months.

Emotet, Malware

Apache Warns of Serious Flaw in Struts

A vulnerability in Apache Struts (CVE-2019-0230) can lead to remote code execution in some circumstances.

Apache