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France Fines Microsoft €60 Million for Using Advertising Cookies Without User Consent

Issued by: The Hacker News

France’s privacy watchdog has imposed a €60 million ($63.88 million) fine against Microsoft’s Ireland subsidiary for dropping advertising cookies in users’ computers without their explicit consent in violation of data protection laws in the European Union. The Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL) noted that users visiting the home page of its Bing…

Network Security

Web-Tracking ‘Cookies’ Meant to Protect Privacy: Inventor

Issued by: Security Week

California-based engineer and entrepreneur Lou Montulli said the original “cookie” he created decades ago was intended to make life online easier by letting websites remember visitors. Yet the technology has become a lightning rod, attacked for helping tech companies collect data on consumers’ habits key to the targeted web ad business that makes many billions…

Malware & Threats

Yahoo Explains Cookie Forgery Related To Two 2016 Breaches

Issued by: Dark Reading

Yahoo’s recent update on forged cookies is in relation to two, not three, security breaches announced last year. Yahoo has provided further clarification on the cookie forging activity related to data breaches disclosed in September and December of last year.