Big tech fails to opt-out users requesting not to be tracked much of the time, new research says

Collection of cybersecurity and privacy developments: webXray audit found 194 ad services frequently ignore legally recognized opt-out signals, undermining user tracking controls; educational publisher McGraw Hill disclosed a Salesforce misconfiguration tied to a ShinyHunters claim of 45 million stolen records and a threatened leak; Swedish authorities reported an attempted breach by suspected pro‑Russian actors against a thermal power plant; a new ‘JanaWare’ ransomware campaign targeting Turkish citizens (with locale and IP-based execution constraints) has been active since 2020; and Virginia