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French Police Raid X Paris Office, Summon Musk Over Grok Deepfakes

Jeffrey Burt | February 3, 2026 | Apple, Artificial Intelligence, deepfakes, Elon Musk, European Union (EU), france, google, Grok chatbot, Sundar Pichai, Tim Cook, United Kingdom, X, XAI

French authorities raided the Paris office of X and summonsed Elon Musk to France for question regarding nonconsensual and sexually suggestive deepfakes generated by xAI's chatbot and posted to X as the ...

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European Airport Disruptions Caused by Ransomware: EU Cyber Office

Jeffrey Burt | September 22, 2025 | Airlines, Airports, ENISA, European Union (EU), Ransomware, scattered spider

The EU's cybersecurity agency says the widespread disruptions at airports in Belgium, England, and Germany were the result of a ransomware attack on third-party on-boarding software from Collins Aerospace that was used ...

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Juhan Lepassaar, executive director of the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

As US CVE Database Fumbles, EU ‘Replacement’ Goes Live

Diesen Kuß der ganzen Welt! European Union Vulnerability Database (EUVD) launches this week. And not a moment too soon ...

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“Oh, won’t somebody please think of the children?”

EU Aims to Ban Math — ‘Chat Control 2.0’ Law is Paused but not Stopped

Ongoing European Union quest to break end-to-end encryption (E2EE) mysteriously disappears ...

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EU Opens Official Probe of TikTok Over Content, Minors, Privacy

Jeffrey Burt | February 20, 2024 | European Commission, European Union (EU), investigation, TikTok

The European Commission is once again turning its attention to TikTok, announcing a wide-ranging investigation into the China-based social media site over concerns about the addictive nature of its site and content, ...

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X/Twitter Under Investigation by EU in First DSA Move

Richi Jennings | December 18, 2023 | Digital Services Act, Elon Musk, elon musk twitter, eu, European Commission, European Governments, European legislation, European Security, European Union, European Union (EU), Margrethe Vestager, SB Blogwatch, Schrems, Stupidity of Twitter, Thierry Breton, Twitter, X

DSA VLOP Sinks In. Manipulation, deception, transparency: “We will make full use of our toolbox,” promises Europe ...

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Biden Admin. Adds ‘Mercenary Spyware’ Firms to Ban List

Richi Jennings | July 19, 2023 | android spyware, Biden administration, Commerce Department, Cytrox, Department of Commerce, Entity List, eu, Europe, European Union, European Union (EU), Intellexa, iOS spyware, Malware Spyware, Predator spyware, SB Blogwatch, spyware

European cousins Intellexa and Cytrox essentially banned by Commerce Dept. — Predator/ALIEN not welcome in U.S ...

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Law Across the Wire and Into the Cloud

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Senator Sanders Wants to Own AI Companies — and Hand America’s Adversaries the Keys

NIST’s Nine: The PQC Signature Race Moves to Round Three

The Quantum Arms Race: Why Washington Just Wrote a $2 Billion Check to Nine Companies

Beyond Moore’s Law: The Hyper-Acceleration of Autonomous AI Cyber Capabilities

The Exception Economy: When Security Teams Stop Protecting and Start Negotiating

GoPlus’s Latest Report Highlights How Blockchain Communities Are Leveraging Critical API Security Data To Mitigate Web3 Threats

C2A Security’s EVSec Risk Management and Automation Platform Gains Traction in Automotive Industry as Companies Seek to Efficiently Meet Regulatory Requirements

Zama Raises $73M in Series A Lead by Multicoin Capital and Protocol Labs to Commercialize Fully Homomorphic Encryption

RSM US Deploys Stellar Cyber Open XDR Platform to Secure Clients

ThreatHunter.ai Halts Hundreds of Attacks in the past 48 hours: Combating Ransomware and Nation-State Cyber Threats Head-On