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FTC cracks down on Genshin Impact gacha loot box practices
Genshin Impact developer Cognosphere (aka Hoyoverse) has agreed to a $20 million settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over its gacha loot box monetization and is now banned from selling them to teens under the age of sixteen without parental consent.
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Microsoft fixes Office 365 apps crashing on Windows Server systems
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- January 17, 2025
- 11:59 AM
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US sanctions Chinese firm, hacker behind telecom and Treasury hacks
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned Yin Kecheng, a Shanghai-based hacker for his role in the recent Treasury breach and a company associated with the Salt Typhoon threat group.
- January 17, 2025
- 11:57 AM
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FCC orders telecoms to secure their networks after Salt Tyhpoon hacks
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has ordered U.S. telecommunications carriers to secure their networks following last year's Salt Typhoon security breaches.
- January 17, 2025
- 11:05 AM
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Microsoft starts force upgrading Windows 11 22H2, 23H3 devices
Microsoft has started the forced rollout of Windows 11 24H2 to eligible, non-managed systems running the Home and Pro editions of Windows 11 22H2 and 23H2.
- January 17, 2025
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This $65 Costco Gold Star Membership could lower your grocery bill
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- January 17, 2025
- 07:16 AM
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GDPR complaints filed against TikTok, Temu for sending user data to China
Non-profit privacy advocacy group "None of Your Business" (noyb) has filed six complaints against TikTok, AliExpress, SHEIN, Temu, WeChat, and Xiaomi, for unlawfully transferring European user's data to China and infringing European Union's general data protection regulation (GDPR).
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- January 16, 2025
- 03:36 PM
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Microsoft expands testing of Windows 11 admin protection feature
Microsoft has expanded its Windows 11 administrator protection tests, allowing Insiders to enable the security feature from the Windows Security settings.
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- January 16, 2025
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US cracks down on North Korean IT worker army with more sanctions
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- January 16, 2025
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Biden signs executive order to bolster national cybersecurity
Days before leaving office, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to shore up the United States' cybersecurity by making it easier to sanction hacking groups targeting federal agencies and the nation's critical infrastructure.
- January 16, 2025
- 12:58 PM
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Wolf Haldenstein law firm says 3.5 million impacted by data breach
Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP ("Wolf Haldenstein") reports it has suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of nearly 3.5 million individuals to hackers.
- January 16, 2025
- 11:26 AM
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FTC orders GoDaddy to fix poor web hosting security practices
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will require web hosting giant GoDaddy to implement basic security protections, including HTTPS APIs and mandatory multi-factor authentication, to settle charges that it failed to secure its hosting services against attacks since 2018.
- January 16, 2025
- 11:09 AM
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New UEFI Secure Boot flaw exposes systems to bootkits, patch now
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- January 16, 2025
- 10:05 AM
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- January 16, 2025
- 10:01 AM
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This Visual Studio bundle is the first stop for beginning developers
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- January 16, 2025
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Hackers leak configs and VPN credentials for 15,000 FortiGate devices
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