Google+ is shutting down following massive data leak
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Google+ is shutting down following massive data leak

ByJames Smythe

While millions of companies have been desperately trying to make their website GDPR compliant one of the biggest tech companies of them all has fallen foul of one of the biggest no-nos within the GDPR. A software vulnerability within Google+ exposed hundreds of thousands of users to a data leak during the period of 2015 and 2018 which…

Major US sites hacked to mine cryptocurrency – a potential GDPR nightmare
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Major US sites hacked to mine cryptocurrency – a potential GDPR nightmare

ByJames Smythe

In the past week, a hacking campaign has been launched on sites running Drupal to inject malicious code that will then mine crypto-currency on your computer. The campaign is believed to have successfully hacked 400 government, corporate, and university websites turning them into cryptocurrency mining platforms that surreptitiously drain visitors’ computers of electricity and computing…