The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2022

It extends beyond the Deep & Dark Web to: unindexed Web forums, messaging boards, and marketplaces, encrypted messaging systems, and code repositories. Data collections released after ransomware attacks. There are many facets to what I’ll call “The Underground.” Databases with critical IP and/or PII.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2024

The spyware then decrypts the overlay (data written after the end of the payload) in the downloaded file with a hardcoded AES key.” ” The spyware stores victim data collected in the SQL table Con001, which includes the data type and its SHA-256 hash.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 27, 2025

Both WhatsApp and Signal offer end-to-end encryption, ensuring that only the sender and recipient can read messages. Signal collects minimal data, but its run by the non-profit Signal Foundation, which operates free from commercial interests. But is switching to Signal truly an improvement?

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 16, 2020

“Looking at the data collected, the pattern of visits are highest on Monday and Friday, and the lowest visit count is on the weekend. Our data shows that there were virtually no customer hits on COVID-related domains prior to February 23.”

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Malwarebytes

JULY 12, 2021

The overall purpose of this rollout is to increase the privacy of all Firefox users by encrypting DNS requests. This includes websites you visit over an encrypted connection, prefixed with [link]. “We do this by performing DNS lookups in an encrypted HTTPS connection. . ” The downside of encrypting DNS.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 21, 2022

Key Findings: MY2022, an app mandated for use by all attendees of the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing, has a simple but devastating flaw where encryption protecting users’ voice audio and file transfers can be trivially sidestepped. Citizen Lab examined the app and found it riddled with security holes.

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Threatpost

AUGUST 12, 2020

App concealed the practice of gathering device unique identifiers using an added layer of encryption.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Less than a week ago, security researcher Nitish Shah directed KrebsOnSecurity to an open database on the Web that allowed anyone to query up-to-the-minute mSpy records for both customer transactions at mSpy’s site and for mobile phone data collected by mSpy’s software. The database required no authentication.

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Hot for Security

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Seismic monitoring devices linked to the internet are vulnerable to cyberattacks that could disrupt data collection and processing, according to Michael Samios of the National Observatory of Athens and his fellow colleagues who put together a new study published in Seismological Research Letters.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Back to the bit about risks impacting data collected by IoT devices and back again to CloudPets, Context Security's piece aligned with my own story about kids' CloudPets messages being left exposed to the internet. The vulnerability is the result of weak encryption used by TP-Link. HA has a Let's Encrypt add-on.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 13, 2019

Better data security so Facebook sees less. On the other hand, WhatsApp -- purchased by Facebook in 2014 -- provides users with end-to-end encrypted messaging. 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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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. Super Bowl Sunday watchers are treated to no fewer than a half-dozen commercials for cryptocurrency investing. ” SEPTEMBER.

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Centraleyes

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Data minimization ensures you’re not collecting unnecessary or excessive personal information, which can also improve customer trust. Data Minimization Best Practices: Limit Data Collection : Only collect personal data that is essential for its specific purpose.

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Centraleyes

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

They also have opt-out rights, particularly concerning the use of their data in targeted advertising, sales, and automated profiling. Privacy Policies and Disclosures: Businesses must provide transparent privacy notices that outline the type of data collected, purposes for processing, and third parties involved.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 3, 2021

Claiming to offer end-to-end encryption, when they were using something called transport encryption in places. They later had to clarify that they meant data was encrypted at Zoom endpoints. In theory, the company could access the data but said they don’t directly access it. The numbers game.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The report contains anonymized data collected by the Kaspersky Global Emergency Response Team (GERT), which is our main incident response and digital forensics unit. of those cases, cybercriminals had had access to target systems for more than a month before they started file encryption.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 20, 2024

The company allegedly obtained this information from non-public sources without the consent of the person filing the complaint or the potentially billions of others affected by the data collection. Use Encryption Encryption ensures that your data is unreadable to anyone who doesn’t have the decryption key.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 18, 2021

Simply by having to explain the differences between forms of messaging, data collection is thrown into sharp relief. That is to say, you may not have known prior to this how much…or little…your favourite apps collect. The data collection genie is out of the bottle, and yet it may not matter too much.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 8, 2024

One of the requests of the plaintiff is for the court to require National Public Data to purge the personal information of all the individuals affected and to encrypt all data collected going forward. We have voiced our objections against data brokers in the past.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The loader starts its activities by loading an encrypted payload from another file that should be present in the same directory. The loaded data are then decoded using XOR, where the XOR key is generated using an unusual technique. The code is similar to the standard loader – variant VLC A. dll Loader Simple Update C:Intelx64.dll

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 26, 2021

Many password managers also encrypt passwords to create an additional layer of protection. MFA adds another roadblock to accessing your account and is a simple, yet powerful way to strengthen data security. Generally, a password manager requires the creation of one master password.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

A hacker going online by the moniker AmFearLiathMor is claiming to have hacked the most popular end-to-end encrypted email service ProtonMail. At the time it is not clear if the hacker belongs to a cyber crime gang, it claims to have stolen a “significant” amounts of data from the company. The ransom demand ( archive.is

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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

There are three major threat vectors that harm IoT deployments: Devices are hijacked by malicious software; Data collected and processed in IoT ecosystems is tampered with and impacts the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the information; and, Weak user and device authentication. Encryption. Data security.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 25, 2024

While we don’t know the threat actor’s true intentions, data collection and spying may be one of their motives. In this blog post, we share more information about the malicious ads and payloads we have been able to collect. Malicious ads Visitors to google.cn are redirected to google.com.hk

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

These devices interweave with each other, creating an essential fabric in our data collection methods, manufacturing operations, and much more. But what about securing this technology and the data flow coming from an army of Internet of Things environments? Encrypt sensitive data in the cloud.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 12, 2024

Ransomware Attacks: The Constant and Evolving Cybersecurity Threat madhav Tue, 03/12/2024 - 13:00 Enterprise data collection is skyrocketing, driven by factors like connected devices, cloud computing, personal data collection and digital transactions. It accounts for 25% of all data breaches.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2022

DEV-0950 group used Clop ransomware to encrypt the network of organizations previously infected with the Raspberry Robin worm. Data collected by Microsoft Defender for Endpoint shows that nearly 3,000 devices in almost 1,000 organizations have seen at least one RaspberryRobin payload-related alert in the last 30 days.

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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. Insurance, a study in Stagnation The insurance industry remained stagnant in consumer trust, securing only 24% confidence in 2025unchanged from 2024.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Research conducted by ARD’s Panorama and STRG_F revealed that data collected during surveillance is processed using statistical methods, effectively breaking Tor’s anonymity. German law enforcement agencies have been surveilling Tor network by operating their own servers for months. an administrator of the platform.

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Identity IQ

JUNE 3, 2021

Some of the data that ISPs log as you browse the internet can include: Websites you visit while browsing. Email messages that are not properly encrypted. Geo-location data while browsing from a smartphone. The data can come in handy when the government authorities are aiming to identify criminal activities.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 22, 2024

On Monday, the computing giant unveiled a new line of PCs that integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to promise faster speeds, enhanced productivity, and a powerful data collection and search tool that screenshots a device’s activity—including password entry—every few seconds.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 20, 2022

As new data protection legislation (such as the GDPR and the CCPA) joins current laws, the regulatory environment becomes increasingly complex (like HIPAA and PCI DSS). An MSSP can assist with data collection and report generation to establish compliance during audits or in the aftermath of a possible incident.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

In contrast, issues such as protecting sensitive data generated by IoT devices with technologies such as encryption, tokenization and validating the integrity of data collected by IoT devices are much less of a concern in Europe than elsewhere. Overall, these track closely to the global sample. Blockchain.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2018

TS: Yes, you can put something into everything, but all of a sudden you have this massive big data collection problem on the back end where you as the attacker have created a different kind of analysis problem. Of course, some nations have more capability than others to sift through huge amounts of data they’re collecting.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Encryption protects data both in transit and at rest. Data loss prevention ( DLP ) prevents unwanted data transfers. Data Loss Prevention (DLP): DLP tools monitor and manage data flows in order to avoid illegal sharing or leaking of sensitive data.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Many security professionals spend hours each day manually administering tools to protect enterprise data. For many organizations, spending so much time collecting data is not conducive to innovation and growth. Data privacy. This includes checking for authentication, authorization, and even encryption protocols.

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