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On January 27, 2025, DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup that’s been making waves in the tech world, found itself under siege. The company reported facing “large-scale malicious attacks,” which threw a wrench in its registration process for new users. While details are scarce, experts suspect a classic Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack—imagine a digital […]
In a chilling escalation of cyber-espionage, a Chinese hacking group identified as Salt Typhoon has breached the networks of at least eight U.S. telecommunications companies. This large-scale intrusion, described by U.S. officials as one of the most significant telecommunication hacks in history, jeopardizes sensitive data and poses an immediate threat to national security. The hackers […]
Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (MPIL) has been fined €91 million by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) for improperly storing user passwords in plaintext, violating multiple General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) articles. The penalty stems from a 2019 incident, where Meta discovered that hundreds of millions of user passwords were left unsecured on its internal systems. […]