Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Some third-party apps quietly scraped personal information from people’s accounts from Twitter and Facebook, the social media companies claim. Facebook and Twitter revealed that some third-party apps quietly scraped personal information from people’s accounts without their consent.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 21, 2020

The idea was that by fingerprinting devices used to connect to the internet we could achieve better accountability. Fingerprinting is considered a necessary practice to fight challenges such as fake accounts and the misuse of internet services. However, online fingerprinting is also being used to track users.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

But new research shows the proxy service has a long history of purchasing installations via shady “pay-per-install” affiliate marketing schemes, some of which 911 operated on its own. 911 says its network is made up entirely of users who voluntarily install its “free VPN” software. in the British Virgin Islands.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Human psychology and biases lead to exaggerated fears that politicians/marketers can exploit, resulting in wasteful and theatrical “security theater.” Where possible, favor openness and transparency over aggressive data collection or restrictions which erode civil liberties. Focus only on proportional responses.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Group-IB: The online market for counterfeit goods in Russia has reached $1,5 billion, while the number of phishing attacks has surpassed 1,200 daily. According to Group-IB, the online market for counterfeit goods in Russia has increased by 23% in a year and totaled more than $1.5 billion in 2017, compared to $1.2 billion in 2016.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

A credible threat actor is offering access to the email accounts of hundreds of C-level executives for $100 to $1500 per account. Access to the email accounts of hundreds of C-level executives is available on the Exploit.in for $100 to $1500 per account. Exploit.in ” reported ZDNet. . ” reported ZDNet.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 14, 2019

Data collected in the course of the investigation also reveals some fascinating details that may help explain why these pump skimmers are so lucrative and ubiquitous. ” BLACK MARKET VALUE. The black market value, impact to consumers and banks, and liability associated with different types of card fraud.

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Joseph Steinberg

APRIL 20, 2021

While the CDC recently instructed that vaccinators not use for commercial marketing purposes data collected as part of the COVID-19 vaccine process, there is little doubt that compliance with such instructions will be far from perfect both now and in the future.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 2, 2023

This page indicates that access to the consumer and payment data collected by US Job Services is currently granted to several other coders who work with Mr. Mirza in Pakistan, and to multiple executives, contractors and employees working for a call center in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Internal Revenue Service website for months: Anyone seeking to create an account to view their tax records online would soon be required to provide biometric data to a private company in Virginia — ID.me. It emerges that email marketing giant Mailchimp got hacked. banks are stiffing account takeover victims.

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Customer identity and access management (CIAM), a subset of identity access management (IAM), is used to manage authentication and authorization of account creation and login process for public facing applications. Marketers want to collect data about customers and their devices.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 19, 2025

While insurers benefit from regulatory oversight like the banking sector, persistent friction points like opaque claims processes and intrusive data collection eroded goodwill. Regional disparities emerged: in markets like India and the UAE, where digital ID systems are robust, trust in insurers reached 34%, compared to 19% in France.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 29, 2024

At Malwarebytes, we reported how a team of researchers at Mozilla who reviewed the privacy and data collection policies of various product categories for several years now, named “Privacy Not Included,” found cars to be the worst product category they ever reviewed for privacy.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

The security researcher that handle the Twitter account Privacy First first reported the alleged unethical behavior and published a video that shows how the app harvest users ‘data. “The data collected was explicitly identified to the customer in the data collection policy and is highlighted to the user during the install.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 14, 2023

Consider, for example, a 2013 Massachusetts bill that tried to restrict the commercial use of data collected from K-12 students using services accessed via the internet. Hacking is often associated with computer systems, but the concept is also applicable to social systems like financial markets, tax codes, and legislative processes.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The CFPB issued orders to BNPL apps Affirm, Afterpay, Klarna, PayPal and Zip to explain how they gather detailed information about consumers´ shopping behavior, fees, loan performance, users´ demographics, data collection and other elements of their business models. The companies have until March 1 to send the information to the CFPB.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 16, 2021

And, as such, the disclosure of personal data was in breach of the Privacy Ordinance. Users had to accept the privacy statement in its entirety to use the app, and they were not specifically asked if they would consent to disclosure to third parties for marketing purposes. Shared data.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The conclusions seemed to upset the FTC, but we weren’t even mildly surprised: “The amount of data collected by large tech companies is simply staggering. They track what we do on and off their platforms, often combining their own information with enormous data sets purchased through the largely unregulated consumer data market.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2019

“Facebook was investigating Rankwave’s data practices in relation to its advertising and marketing services,” Facebook was investigating the advertising and marketing activities of the South Korean company and accused it of the lack of co-operation in demonstrating compliance with Facebook policies.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2022

In reality, this level of data collection is not as uncommon as is being suggested. The app collects how much data? You may even experience digital billboard Geofence marketing. This isn’t great if the service or account is compromised, so always ensure there’s an option to delete historical data.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Certain tech giants recently started adding tools to their ecosystems that are meant to improve the data collection transparency. Four of them are owned by Google: Google Analytics, Google AdSense, Google Marketing Platform, and YouTube Analytics. However, not every service provides this kind of warnings.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Most businesses need websites, and websites need to follow Google’s best practices to be found in online searches, terms Google can force because it currently has 92 percent worldwide market share on search. percent of the online advertising market ) and pay to show up in search results. What do I mean by Orwellian?

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 29, 2024

Information collected by online trackers is often shared with an extensive network of marketers, advertisers, and data brokers. The plethora of online accounts most people have necessitates the use of a strong and unique password for each and every one. Protecting your information online starts with good cyber hygiene.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Google Google has several tracking systems responsible for various but often overlapping areas of marketing, advertising, and other fields involving the collection, analysis, and interpretation of user data. In South Asia, it accounted for 25.47% of DNT component triggers, and in East Asia – 24.45%.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2021

However, one possible scenario is that they obtained a targeted employee’s login credentials and then used that employee’s account to pivot to and take control of the build system, Pericin says. It is undisclosed how the Russia-sponsored attackers got control of the SolarWinds build machine. This is how it should work.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 8, 2022

From the trial signup page , you will be asked for your name, company name and email address: Don’t feel like sacrificing your work email address to the marketing gods? Once you are ready to install the collector role, first log into the InsightIDR portal : From the menu on the left side of the screen, click Data Collection.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 13, 2019

All the post discusses is making private chats more central to the company, which seems to be a play for increased market dominance and to counter the Chinese company WeChat. It even collects what it calls " shadow profiles " -- data about you even if you're not a Facebook user. Better use of Facebook data to prevent violence.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Governance and Accountability: Organizations must establish governance structures, including appointing a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) or equivalent roles, to oversee cybersecurity initiatives. Reputational Damage: Customers may lose trust in an organization that experiences a data breach or system compromise.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2018

In the past, it’s been much more lucrative for the attacker to attack the supply chain on the distribution side, to go after targeted machines in targeted markets to lessen the exposure of this activity. Another is accountability and traceability back to a source. Where does accountability come in? BK: For example….?

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SecureList

MAY 28, 2024

IT outsourcing market continues to demonstrate strong growth globally – such services are becoming increasingly popular. Having compromised the service provider’s infrastructure, intruders can obtain user accounts or certificates issued by the target organization, and thereby connect to their systems.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 11, 2022

UEBA has been growing for some time, and a 2022 Market Data Forecast report predicts its global market size to grow from $890.7 UEBA is also increasingly becoming a feature in core cybersecurity products like SIEM and EDR so it’s growing in ways that standalone market figures don’t completely capture.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

It is likely that in the space of a few years they will seriously affect the cyber security market.”. A relatively new method of fraud on the ICO market was stealing a White Paper of ICO project and presenting an identical idea under a new brand name. million, accounting for only 17% of the overall market value, compared to 19.9

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 31, 2022

To that effect, TCS, Global leader in cyber security services, and Thales recently announced a partnership offering a one-stop solution for data privacy that organisations leverage to manage this complexity and help reach compliance. Accountability and delegated responsibility. Implementing privacy. Glocal” expertise, global and local.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 26, 2022

The Essentials plan covers monitoring and alerting, but larger companies will appreciate Performance’s additional tools for forensic traffic data, ML-powered application visibility, and network flow analytics. AES-256 encryption for data at rest and TLS v1.2 Auvik Features. Broadcom Features. Catchpoint Features.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

AUGUST 2, 2021

A hacker or scammer could also use faceprint and voiceprint data in a plethora of ways to impersonate you, and to create very realistic deep fakes or digital personas - combined with the other information obtainable from TikTok and some rudimentary AI, create a not-so-easily discerned, fake digital version of any user.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In the EU, lawmakers are working on the Data Act , meant to further protect sensitive data, as well as a comprehensive AI legal strategy that might put a curb on a range of invasive machine-learning technologies and require greater accountability and transparency. Desperate to stop data leaks, people will insure against them.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

Group-IB’s records indicate that card dumps account for 62% of total sets of card data sold, which means that POS Trojans represent the major method of compromising credit cards and might have caused this particular leak. The market value of this database is estimated at $19.9 million were uploaded to card shops monthly.

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