The European Commission recently approved a newly proposed EU-US data privacy framework concerning how EU data transferred to US companies is handled. Any US company handling EU data will not need to implement additional data protection safeguards if they are operating under the approved framework.

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For many, messaging apps take up most of the time spent online. They’re a convenient tool for keeping up with friends and family. But recent history has taught us you can’t rely on things you say in these chats remaining private. However benign the content of your discussion might be, it’s uncomfortable to think that someone else might read them. 

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A few weeks ago, Microsoft’s OneDrive and 365 services, such as Microsoft Teams and Sharepoint, experienced outages due to a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. According to Cybersecurity Dive, a hacktivist group called Anonymous Sudan claimed they were behind the attack and made even more threats against the tech giant. 

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Cora is a digital copywriter for SSLs.com. Having eight years of experience in online content creation, she is a versatile writer with an interest in a wide variety of topics, ranging from technology to marketing.

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Telecommunications corporation Nokia recently released its 2023 Threat Intelligence Report. Covering everything from 4G and 5G security attacks to malware attacks, the report reveals a startling rise in botnet-driven distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) utilizing IoT devices. 

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Cora is a digital copywriter for SSLs.com. Having eight years of experience in online content creation, she is a versatile writer with an interest in a wide variety of topics, ranging from technology to marketing.

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Researchers have discovered a botnet known as Dark Frost, which has been launching distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against the online gaming sector. This new botnet was found by Akamai’s Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT), which recently published its findings. By publicizing this, SIRT wants to highlight that it’s not just notorious hacker groups that can cause significant damage but also low-skilled threat actors. 

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Cora is a digital copywriter for SSLs.com. Having eight years of experience in online content creation, she is a versatile writer with an interest in a wide variety of topics, ranging from technology to marketing.

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The longtime best practice for anyone using apps on their devices is to only download them from official stores like Google Play or the iOS App Store. Official stores have means to generally prevent malicious apps from being listed. Though, that doesn’t mean bad apps never slip through the cracks. It also doesn’t mean that a once legitimate app can’t subsequently have malicious code added to it down the line. 

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Cora is a digital copywriter for SSLs.com. Having eight years of experience in online content creation, she is a versatile writer with an interest in a wide variety of topics, ranging from technology to marketing.

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Google recently announced at its annual developer conference, Google I/O, that it would expand its dark web report feature to all Gmail users in the US. Until now, this feature has only been available to Google One subscribers. According to The Verge, Google said it would eventually expand the service to “select international markets” but did not specify which ones and when. 

Cora Quigley

Cora is a digital copywriter for SSLs.com. Having eight years of experience in online content creation, she is a versatile writer with an interest in a wide variety of topics, ranging from technology to marketing.

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