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Europe's GDPR cops dished out €1.2B in fines last year as data breaches piled up

Regulators logged over 400 personal data breach notifications a day for first time since law came into force

GDPR fines pushed past the Β£1 billion (€1.2 billion) mark in 2025 as Europe's regulators were deluged with more than 400Β data breach notifications a day, according to a new survey that suggests the post-plateau era of enforcement has well and truly arrived.…

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Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch

Microsoft claims it's a Secure Launch bug

We're not saying Copilot has become sentient and decided it doesn't want to lose consciousness. But if it did, it would create Microsoft's January Patch Tuesday update, which has made it so that some PCs flat-out refuse to shut down or hibernate, no matter how many times you try.…

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Bankrupt scooter startup left one private key to rule them all

Owner reverse-engineered his ride, revealing authentication was never properly individualized

An Estonian e-scooter owner locked out of his own ride after the manufacturer went bust did what any determined engineer might do. He reverse-engineered it, and claims he ended up discovering the master key that unlocks every scooter the company ever sold.…

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US regulator tells GM to hit the brakes on customer tracking

Smart Driver pitched as safety app, but feds claim it's a data-harvesting scheme that jacked up premiums

The Federal Trade Commission has banned General Motors and subsidiary OnStar from sharing drivers' precise location and behavior data with consumer reporting agencies for five years under a 20-year consent order finalized January 14.…

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Federal agencies told to fix or ditch Gogs as exploited zero-day lands on CISA hit list

Git server flaw that attackers have been abusing for months has now caught the attention of US cyber cops

CISA has ordered federal agencies to stop using Gogs or lock it down immediately after a high-severity vulnerability in the self-hosted Git service was added to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.…

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Court tosses appeal by hacker who opened port to coke smugglers with malware

Dutchman fails to convince judges his trial was unfair because cops read his encrypted chats

A Dutch appeals court has kept a seven-year prison sentence in place for a man who hacked port IT systems with malware-stuffed USB sticks to help cocaine smugglers move containers, brushing off claims that police shouldn't have been reading his encrypted chats.…

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