Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Sophos Firewall

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Sophos on Friday announced the rollout of urgent patches for a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in the web portal of its Sophos Firewall product.

Reported by an external researcher via the Sophos bug bounty program, the vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2022-1040 and impacts Sophos Firewall v18.5 MR3 (18.5.3) and older releases.

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US, EU Sign Data Transfer Deal to Ease Privacy Concerns

The European Union and United States made a breakthrough in their yearslong battle over the privacy of data that flows across the Atlantic with a preliminary agreement Friday that paves the way for Europeans’ personal information to be stored in the U.S.

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How European Rulings Imperil Flagship Google Product

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Lax laws and sweetheart deals are becoming a thing of the past for big tech firms, particularly in Europe where a series of rulings is posing a major threat to one of Google’s flagship products.

More than half of the world’s websites use Google Analytics to help their owners understand the behavior of users.

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