From The Hacker News – Meta Fined €251 Million for 2018 Data Breach Impacting 29 Million Accounts

From The Hacker News – Meta Fined €251 Million for 2018 Data Breach Impacting 29 Million Accounts

Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads, has been fined €251 million (around $263 million) for a 2018 data breach that impacted millions of users in the bloc, in what's the latest financial hit the company has taken for flouting stringent privacy laws. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) said the data breach impacted approximately 29 million
From The Hacker News – Over 300K Prometheus Instances Exposed: Credentials and API Keys Leaking Online

From The Hacker News – Over 300K Prometheus Instances Exposed: Credentials and API Keys Leaking Online

Cybersecurity researchers are warning that thousands of servers hosting the Prometheus monitoring and alerting toolkit are at risk of information leakage and exposure to denial-of-service (DoS) as well as remote code execution (RCE) attacks. "Prometheus servers or exporters, often lacking proper authentication, allowed attackers to easily gather sensitive information, such as credentials and API