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Pro-consumer website Comparitech has released a new report exploring legislation about child data collection in the world’s top 50 countries by gross domestic product (GDP). The document assessed 23 different aspects of these policies to assess whether specific legislation was in place for children’s online data or not. Aspects examined included requirements for privacy policies, parental consent and authority and restrictions on who had access to the data internally. Every one of these aspects was…

Indian airline SpiceJet delayed a number of flights on Wednesday after reporting being hit by a ransomware attack the previous day. The news was reported by the BBC, which spotted the company’s tweet earlier this week. “Certain SpiceJet systems faced an attempted ransomware attack last night that impacted and slowed down morning flight departures today,” the company wrote on Twitter on Wednesday. “Our IT team has contained and rectified the situation and flights are operating…

A recently spotted supply chain attack abused an old but legitimate Python package to deliver a malicious payload. Read more on how the attacker managed to do it and how to protect yourself from it. Image: sharafmaksumov/Adobe Stock Python packages are generally updated often as their developers add new functionalities or features, remove bugs or increase stability. An old Python package named “ctx,” not updated since 2014, suddenly came back to life with new updates….

The great thing about working in the world of cybersecurity is that there’s always something new. You may think you’ve seen it all, and then something comes along that completely surprises you. And that’s certainly true of the GoodWill ransomware, which security firm CloudSEK described this week. In fact, the GoodWill ransomware stands out so much from the crowd that you might be forgiven for thinking that it is an April Fool’s joke that has…

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