TikTok fined for violating Cookies
French CNIL has fined TikTok €5 million for violating cookie consent rules. French data protection watchdog claims that users are not able to refuse cookies, as easily as they accept…
Google Penalized by France Regulators Over Cookies
Google has been fined by French data privacy watchdog regulators over cookies handling France's Commission Nationale de Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) - the country's regulatory body in charge of…
O365 Cookies hijacked to perform Financial Fraud
A massive phishing campaign has been targeting Office 365 users since September 2021 and successfully bypassing MFA set up to protect the accounts. The attackers use proxy servers and phishing…
Chrome Extensions can Track online
Google Chrome extensions are used to generate fingerprint and it used to track online, researcher claims. Fingerprinting is a way of figuring out what makes your device unique and then…
TrustPid- A new way cookie tracking
ISP providers in Germany consider to introduce TrustPid, a new type of supercookie that comprises of a unique identifier which will be issued for each customer that will be able…
Cross Domain Cookie leverage in Guzzle fixed
Developers of Guzzle, have addressed a high severity vulnerability leading to cross-domain cookie leakage. Open source content management system Drupal, is among the applications that use the third-party library and…
Google FLoC Flops ! Topics Rising
Google has decided to drop FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts), its cookie alternative, with something called Topics API. The Topics API will use browsing topics into 300 or so categories.…
France Welcomed Google and Facebook with Fine on New Year
French regulators have hit Google and Facebook with 210 million euros in fines over their use of cookies, the data used to track users online. The 150-million-euro fine imposed on…