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China’s Olympics App Is Horribly Insecure

Schneier on Security

News article : It’s not clear whether the security flaws were intentional or not, but the report speculated that proper encryption might interfere with some of China’s ubiquitous online surveillance tools, especially systems that allow local authorities to snoop on phones using public wireless networks or internet cafes.

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GUEST ESSAY: What everyone should know about the pros and cons of online fingerprinting

The Last Watchdog

When it was first introduced, device fingerprinting – or online fingerprinting in general – was meant to create a safer, more responsible internet. The idea was that by fingerprinting devices used to connect to the internet we could achieve better accountability. However, online fingerprinting is also being used to track users.

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On Chinese "Spy Trains"

Schneier on Security

News articles talk about " spy trains ," and the possibility that the train cars might surreptitiously monitor their passengers' faces, movements, conversations or phone calls. If there's any lesson from all of this, it's that everybody spies using the Internet. But another part involves fears about national security. Our allies do it.

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OpenAI Is Not Training on Your Dropbox Documents—Today

Schneier on Security

There’s a rumor flying around the Internet that OpenAI is training foundation models on your Dropbox documents. Some articles are more nuanced , but there’s still a lot of confusion. Here’s CNBC. Here’s Boing Boing. It seems not to be true. Dropbox isn’t sharing all of your documents with OpenAI.

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App cyberattacks jump 137%, with healthcare, manufacturing hit hard, Akamai says

CSO Magazine

An analysis of customer data collected by content delivery network and internet services giant Akamai found that attacks targeting web applications rose by 137% over the course of last year, as the healthcare and manufacturing sectors in particular were targeted with an array of API and application-based intrusions.

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BrandPost: The state of operational technology and cybersecurity

CSO Magazine

Today, the convergence of operational technology (OT) and IT networks is accelerating because organizations can use the data collected by physical equipment and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) devices to identify issues and increase efficiency. To read this article in full, please click here

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How to Collect Market Intelligence with Residential Proxies?

Security Affairs

How residential proxies using real IPs from diverse locations enable businesses to gather comprehensive and accurate data from the web Since the adoption of the first digital tools and connection to the internet, the competitive business environment has revolutionized and transformed the ways modern companies conduct business operations.

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