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Guerrilla malware is preinfected on 8.9 million Android devices, Trend Micro says

CSO Magazine

The infection turns these devices into mobile proxies, tools for stealing and selling SMS messages, social media and online messaging accounts and monetization via advertisements and click fraud," Trend Micro researchers said in a report presented at the BlackHat Asia conference this week.

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NEW TECH: Data Theorem helps inventory sprawling APIs — as the first step to securing them

The Last Watchdog

If I go to a CSO and say, ‘We can secure your APIs,’ he’ll say, ‘Great, can you also find them for me?’ ” observed Dwivedi, Data Theorem’s founder. Instead, what it did was allow anyone with a usps.com account to modify a wildcard search without authentication permissions. And that’s just one phone. Velocity without security.

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Minnesota Passes Data Privacy Law, Joining Growing State Movement

SecureWorld News

But industries like advertising tech have pushed back, citing compliance challenges for companies operating across multiple state privacy regimes. Having dedicated privacy personnel helps centralize expertise, authority, and accountability. " RELATED: Uber CSO Found Guilty: The Sky Is Not Falling. Jaworski added.

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The Rise of an Overlooked Crime – Cyberstalking

Security Affairs

Once an account gets compromised finding pictures from chats such as those that may have been shared with an intimate friend is cake walk. He has been featured on major media outlets including TheGuardian, Lifehacker Australia, The Next Web, CSO, ITProPortal, Infosec Magazine, Tripwire and many others. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Facebook is firing three engineers per month for accessing user data

CyberSecurity Insiders

Meaning, they were caught tracking the location of users, their names, their whereabouts, private messages, viewing deleted photos from their accounts, and what not! Sheera’s revelation also discloses the truth on how seriously FB takes its user privacy. Hope, Mr. Zuckerberg took a note of such revelations and handled the situation wise.