South Korea hits Coupang with $400M+ fine for data breach that affected millions

South Korean authorities issued the record-breaking fine following a data breach that affected over 30 million customers.

Signal Alums Reveal ‘Encrypted Spaces,’ a System for Making Private Collaboration Apps

The new open-source project could serve as the basis for a future of apps with features as complex as Slack, Discord, or Google Docs—but with added protection against surveillance.

South Korea hits Coupang with record $409 million fine over massive data breach
South Korea hits Coupang with record $409 million fine over massive data breach

South Korea’s privacy watchdog has slapped e-commerce giant Coupang with a record-breaking 624.7 billion won ($409 million) fine, the largest data breach penalty in the country’s history. The ruling, handed down today by the Personal Information Protec…

Avast’s former CEO built an AI that found every OpenSSL zero-day this year. Now it runs inside air-gapped networks.
Avast’s former CEO built an AI that found every OpenSSL zero-day this year. Now it runs inside air-gapped networks.

AISLE, the cybersecurity startup founded by former Avast CEO Ondrej Vlcek, launched Snapshot on Tuesday, a product that deploys its AI vulnerability scanner inside a customer’s private cloud, on-premises data centre, or fully air-gapped environment. So…

The researcher Microsoft threatened just dropped a seventh Windows zero-day hours after Patch Tuesday
The researcher Microsoft threatened just dropped a seventh Windows zero-day hours after Patch Tuesday

Chaotic Eclipse, the security researcher Microsoft threatened with criminal prosecution, has published a seventh Windows zero-day exploit. Called RoguePlanet, it grants attackers SYSTEM privileges on fully patched Windows 10 and 11 machines. The resear…

Anthropic wants governments to have the power to block dangerous AI deployments
Anthropic wants governments to have the power to block dangerous AI deployments

Anthropic has published two policy frameworks calling for governments to have the legal authority to block dangerous AI deployments and for economic safeguards to protect workers as AI reshapes the labour market. The Advanced AI Framework covers safety…

A California city just approved $3.15 million in police drones that respond to 911 calls in 30 seconds
A California city just approved $3.15 million in police drones that respond to 911 calls in 30 seconds

Stockton, California, has approved a $3.15 million investment in police drones that can respond to 911 calls in as little as 30 seconds. The city council voted 7-0 to expand its contract with Flock Safety, adding a drone-as-first-responder platform to …

Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet
Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet

Typing a few letters and numbers into my web browser, I find myself gaping at the identity documents of complete strangers. The passport of a young woman from Germany. The passport of a man from Spain with glasses resting on his head. The front and back of another man’s driver’s license, a stereotypically goofy expression […]