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If EU complaint stands, Mark Zuckerberg's company faces a fine of up to 10 percent of its total global annual turnover, which hit $118 billion for the 12 months ending September 30. The European Commission said it is concerned that Meta is imposing unfair trading conditions on Facebook Marketplace's competitors…

Photo: Casimiro PT (Shutterstock)A hacker has breached an FBI program dedicated to critical infrastructure cybersecurity and is now selling access to its data on the dark web. Security blogger Brian Krebs reports that InfraGard, an information-sharing program maintained by the bureau, was compromised earlier this month by a cybercriminal who goes by the moniker “USDoD.” After swiping an internal database that contained contact information for “tens of thousands” of InfraGard members, the hacker proceeded to post its…

Omar Marques | LightRocket | Getty ImagesDraftKings said Monday there is no evidence the online betting platform's systems were breached following a report that some users were hacked.An unknown number of users discovered unusual activity associated with their DraftKings account that led to withdrawals from their bank accounts, according to a report by The Action Network and social media posts. Several users described being locked out of their accounts before noticing the drawdowns.related investing newsThis crypto cold…

September 16 was a regular day in Slack for Uber staff. Team members were chatting about their schedules for the week and the latest updates on their projects. Ideally, a couple of channels were filled with the usual banter and idle conversation, while others were quiet—waiting for someone to break the silence.Safe to say, nothing seemed out of place. Not even a new user who had joined the company's channel. This user used the name 'Nwave' without a profile picture, biography, or job description. But no one thought much…

Screenshot: Lucas Ropek/NeopetsNeopets, the company that sells virtual pets to tweenagers (and also a weird amount of adults), suffered a pretty devastating data breach earlier this year, but a recent update seems to show it was far worse than we previously thought. 02:5710 Horror Docs You Should Watch Part 2Yesterday 6:40PMIn July, the company announced that it had been hacked and that data on its members—believed to be about 69 million people—had potentially been accessed. This week, the company divulged new details…

ARM has filed a lawsuit against Qualcomm and subsidiary Nuvia over alleged trademark infringement and a breach of some license agreements. It wants certain Nuvia CPU designs to be destroyed, as well as "fair compensation." Qualcomm bought Nuvia last year to leverage the latter's custom processor cores for its chips. According to the filing (which was obtained by The Register), Nuvia used licensed ARM tech to build the cores. ARM claims Qualcomm did not obtain the necessary permission to transfer and use the licenses it…

The hackers that breached Twilio earlier this month also compromised over 130 organizations during their hacking spree that netted the credentials of close to 10,000 employees. Twilio’s recent network intrusion allowed the hackers access the data of 125 Twilio customers and companies — including end-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal — after tricking employees into handing over their corporate login credentials and two-factor codes from SMS phishing messages that purported to come from…

Image: Down DetectorHowever, I just went back to the Plex website to check on some information, and found it to be unreachable. One of my ZDNET colleagues in the UK (I'm in Oregon) confirmed it was down for her as well as it's showing down on Down Detector. On one hand, this could be the result of all their users rushing to change their passwords, but it could also be indicative of an additional attack. Update: As of 8am ET, the Plex site is back online.Given that the company's site is currently unreachable, this…

Networking giant Cisco has admitted a cyber-security breach via the "successful compromise" of an employee's personal Google account, saying that no data was compromised.The attacker conducted a series of sophisticated voice phishing attacks under the guise of various trusted organisations attempting to convince the victim to accept multi-factor authentication (MFA) push notifications initiated by the attacker, the company's own Cisco Talos threat research arm revealed in a blog post.The incident occurred in May, and…

A hacker claims to have stolen information from Neopets, the long-running virtual pet website, affecting 69 million users of the service. The hack was confirmed by posts from the official Neopets Twitter and Instagram accounts on July 20th, with a tweet informing the public that the company “recently became aware that customer data may have been stolen” and had hired a forensic firm to investigate. The social media posts did not give further information about the scope of the hack but suggested that all site users…