The Last Watchdog

JUNE 10, 2024

For instance, it helps online tax services prevent leakage of taxpayers’ personal information via pixels, those imperceptible JavaScripts embedded in a web page to collect information about the user’s interactions. For a full drill down, please give the a listen. Acohido Pulitzer Prize-winning business journalist Byron V.

Data collection 261

Data collection Internet Internet Technology 261

Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Like the United States, China is more likely to try to get data from the US communications infrastructure, or from the large Internet companies that already collect data on our every move as part of their business model. If there's any lesson from all of this, it's that everybody spies using the Internet.

Surveillance 255

Surveillance Wireless Government Internet 255

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 26, 2020

For several years beginning around 2010, a lone teenager in Vietnam named Hieu Minh Ngo ran one of the Internet’s most profitable and popular services for selling “ fullz ,” stolen identity records that included a consumer’s name, date of birth, Social Security number and email and physical address.

Identity Theft 356

Identity Theft Computers and Electronics Hacking Accountability 356

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

. “The personal health information that was copied was collected from a large network of mostly Ontario health care facilities and providers regarding fertility, pregnancy, newborn and child health care offered between January 2010 and May 2023.”

Data breaches 130

Data breaches Healthcare Ransomware Hacking 130

The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2021

This type of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) hack has been around for at least 20 years and first gained global attention when Google disclosed China’s Operation Aurora hack in January 2010, stirring an international dust-up. APT attacks have only solidified as the go-to approach for nation state-backed cyber espionage since then.

Software 202

Software Hacking Malware Engineering 202

Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2019

Even if in Italy the cells of the popular Anonymous collective are very active , the overall number of hacktivist attacks that caused in quantifiable damage to the victim has declined by 95 percent since 2015. Researchers analyzed data collected by IBM’s X-Force threat intelligence unit between 2015 and 2019.

Advertising 95

Advertising Data collection DDOS Healthcare 95

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Abnormal Security Cloud email security 2019 Private Sqreen Application security 2019 Acquired: Datadog Demisto SOAR 2018 Acquired by PAN Skyhigh Cloud security 2012 Acquired: McAfee OpenDNS Internet security 2009 Acquired: Cisco Palo Alto Networks Cloud and network security 2006 NYSE: PANW. Insight Partners.

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Cybersecurity Technology Marketing Healthcare 128