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The Global Coalition on Telecoms (GCOT) — comprising the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Japan and Australia, with Sweden and Finland joining at the launch — unveiled voluntary security and resilience principles for the technology at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona.

According to court documents, the defendant purchased millions of dollars of labels but did not sell them with the corresponding software.

U.S. Cyber Command conducted online attacks against Iranian communications systems that the country’s top general said set the stage for the joint bombing campaign with Israel.

Part of the breach was traced back to a Multiethnic Cohort (MEC) Study established in 1993, which used driver’s license numbers and voter registration records to recruit participants.

An espionage campaign last year targeted government agencies and critical infrastructure operators in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, the cybersecurity firm Arctic Wolf said.

The Bamberg Regional Court in Bavaria handed down the sentence last Thursday after an 11-day trial conducted under heightened security measures, according to reports by local media.

In an advisory, the U.K.'s National Cyber Security Centre warned British organizations to review and strengthen their cyber defenses amid the evolving situation in Iran and throughout the Middle East.

Russia’s internet regulator and defense ministry said their servers were hit by a large DDoS attack that briefly disrupted access to several government websites late last week.

In December, Texas sued five major smart TV manufacturers — Samsung, Sony, LG, Hisense and TCL Technology — for allegedly collecting ACR data without consumers in the state being fully informed and consenting.

Parents in the U.S., U.K., Australia and Canada will soon receive alerts if a child repeatedly searches Instagram for content relating to self-harm or suicide.

The opinion also states that social media access should not be allowed for children below age 13 under any circumstances.

Gerald Eddie Brown, 65, was arrested in Jeffersonville, Indiana on Thursday after spending nearly three years living in China and allegedly providing combat aircraft training to pilots in the Chinese Air Force.

Rudd “does not have the background that would allow him to immediately step into” the role of leading Cyber Command, Wyden wrote in a letter that was included in the Congressional Record on Wednesday.

A Greek court sentenced the founder of the Intellexa Consortium and three associates to prison for their role in a sprawling spyware scandal that has dominated Greek headlines since it came to light in 2022.

A cyberespionage campaign carried out by a China-linked threat actor affected at least 53 government and telecom organizations across 42 countries, Google said.

The British government said it has slashed the time required to fix some of the most serious cyber vulnerabilities across the public sector, pointing to a new automated monitoring service as evidence that Whitehall is finally getting a grip on long-troubled digital defenses.

The rate at which ransomware victims paid cybercriminals fell last year while the overall number of attacks ballooned, Chainalysis found.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Wednesday issued a policy statement advising industry that it will not bring enforcement actions against website and online service providers who collect, use and share personal data using age verification technologies.

A breach of TriZetto software first described by counties in Oregon affected millions of Americans overall, according to public data released this week by the company.

In responding to pushback about Discord's impending age verification policy, co-founder Stanislav Vishnevskiy said the platform "failed at our most basic job: clearly explaining what we're doing and why. That's on us.”