Surveillance-based pricing? Two lawmakers say enough Two Democratic members of Congress, Greg Casar (D-TX) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI,) have introduced legislation in the US House of Representatives to ban the use of AI surveillance to set prices and wages.… READ MORE HERE…

MAPP program to blame? A week after Microsoft told the world that its July software updates didn’t fully fix a couple of bugs, which allowed miscreants to take over on-premises SharePoint servers and remotely execute code, researchers have assembled much of the puzzle — with one big missing piece.… READ MORE HERE…

AT&T and Verizon refused to hand over the security assessments, says Cantwell US Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) has demanded that Google-owned incident response firm Mandiant hand over the Salt Typhoon-related security assessments of AT&T and Verizon that, according to the lawmaker, both operators have thus far refused to give Congress.… READ MORE HERE…

Malicious code lurking in over 5,000 downloads, says Socket researcher Developer freelancing platform Toptal has been inadvertently spreading malicious code after attackers broke into its systems and began distributing malware through developer accounts.… READ MORE HERE…

Under oath in French Senate, exec says it would be compelled – however unlikely – to pass local customer info to US admin Microsoft says it “cannot guarantee” data sovereignty to customers in France – and by implication the wider European Union – should the Trump administration demand access to customer information held on its servers.… READ MORE HERE…