SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

This unannounced change, like the "UCPD driver" blocking Registry hacks, raised privacy concerns. Microsoft confirmed the app does not run any background code or capture user data. Request to see the data they have collected and ask them to delete it where possible.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 17, 2023

Why Is Data Privacy Important? If you have never been affected by a scam or issue such as identity theft, then you may not yet fully comprehend the important role that data privacy plays. Data privacy refers to keeping the information that we discussed in the previous section safe and confidential.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2025

Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking,data breach) The security breach occurred on December 13, 2023, but the company discovered the incident only on April 18, 2024, and has only now disclosed it due to the complexity of the digital forensic investigation.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2021

Most of them relate to safeguarding data from misuse and reassuring that all procedures abide by the active regulations. Data Storage: Evaluates the risks around the vendor’s data storage and data retention capabilities to understand how effective they are in keeping sensitive data safe and secure.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2023

TikTok is also under the scrutiny of Canadian privacy regulators that are investigating whether the company obtains valid and meaningful consent from users when collecting their personal information. “All it does is prevent officials from reaching the public on a platform loved by millions of Canadians.”

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 6, 2022

Along with China’s new data privacy law , companies can expect scrutiny of data uses and protection to continue to grow. “I expect as the ethical hacking industry matures, we’ll see the skill set of hackers also applied to other challenges we’re facing with technology.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

A hacking collective compromised roughly 150,000 internet-connected surveillance cameras from Verkada, Inc., Such revelations create intrigue as to whether a more insidious actor could perform a similar hack in order to conduct industrial espionage by spying on development and production activity. It’s a bug.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 24, 2023

Engage in limited telemetry or data collection Browsers should not phone home any browsing related activity. As for telemetry specifically, the browser should 1) allow users to opt-out of telemetry completely and 2) anonymize all information collected via telemetry.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 28, 2021

As thoughts turn to Data Privacy this week in a big way , GDPR illustrates it isn’t an afterthought. Grindr, the popular social network and dating platform , will likely suffer a $ 12 million USD fine due to privacy related complaints. Batten down the data privacy hatches. What is GDPR?

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 4, 2024

Recent years have seen numerous major breaches originate from software supply chain compromises, such as the SolarWinds hack , and from vulnerabilities in vendor payroll or billing systems, such as the Change Healthcare breach. Infostealer attacks are on the rise, focusing on data collection rather than just hiding data behind encryption.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In the case of LLMs, information passed to the bot can be compromised according to several scenarios: Data leak or hack on the provider’s side; Although LLM-based chatbots are operated by tech majors, even they are not immune to hacking or accidental leakage. Account hacking.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 17, 2024

In another Imperva blog, Hacking Microsoft and Wix with Keyboard Shortcuts , researchers focused on the anchor tag and its behavior with varying target attributes and protocols. This was accomplished by exploiting client-side path traversal and a broken function-level authorization bug in the ChatGPT backend.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 17, 2024

In another Imperva blog, Hacking Microsoft and Wix with Keyboard Shortcuts , researchers focused on the anchor tag and its behavior with varying target attributes and protocols. This was accomplished by exploiting client-side path traversal and a broken function-level authorization bug in the ChatGPT backend.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 8, 2024

This audio data could be sensitive and is susceptible to misuse if not adequately protected. Risk of hacking and data breaches: The AI system itself could become a target for hackers. A breach could lead to the exposure of large amounts of personal data, posing significant risks to user privacy.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 6, 2022

There are many ways that data collection, and data availability, make less sense as the years pass by. More car hacking! There’s even mention of recovering data from phones which had connected to a car without the phone itself being present. Data availability playing catch up with data privacy.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 16, 2024

Privacy-oriented browsers also limit data collection and "phoning home" and telemetry activity on their backend (in this specific case, I am using "backend" to refer to the side where users don't necessarily directly interact with the browser), preserving your privacy as a user.

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Identity IQ

JUNE 17, 2024

Lack of user control over data. Individual users have little control over the data collection practices of organizations and are at the mercy of the identity verification requirements those organizations enact. This can make identity verification cumbersome for the end user and provide opportunities for criminals.

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The Security Ledger

JANUARY 22, 2019

One measure of that: despite containing credentials for more than 700 million accounts, Collection 1 revealed just 21 million unique passwords. See also: Expert says: Hack your Smart Home to Secure It. Even more worrying: Collection #1 isn’t the only repository of stolen credential out there.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 15, 2024

A great many readers this month reported receiving alerts that their Social Security Number, name, address and other personal information were exposed in a breach at a little-known but aptly-named consumer data broker called NationalPublicData.com. But according to researchers at Atlas Data Privacy Corp.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 26, 2021

New York appears to be poised to make 2021 the year of data privacy for the Empire State. As part of the 2021 State of the State address, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a comprehensive law that "will provide New Yorkers with transparency and control over their personal data and provide new privacy protections.".

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Spinone

JULY 3, 2020

Who Will Be Affected By GDPR GDPR rules apply to anyone who collects, records, organizes, stores, and processes personal data, i.e., to most businesses across the world. This makes GDPR the most extensive data privacy regulation to date back. It also doesn’t matter whether your business is located in the E.U.,

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 9, 2025

A robust 75% said they opt out of data collection, as possible, and 23% have gone a step further, using a data removal service to help clean up any personal information that is easily found online. Individual action The dire privacy concerns shared by many respondents have, for the most part, not resulted in privacy nihilism.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

It’s about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. VAMOSI: That’s on the data collection side. There are also benefits to the end user as well, such as increased privacy. You cross a line to where now it's not just the nation state that's trying to hack you.

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