Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

Residential proxy services are often marketed to people seeking the ability to evade country-specific blocking by the major movie and media streaming providers. “Our technology ensures the maximum security from reverse engineering and antivirus detections,” ExEClean promised. in the British Virgin Islands.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The Canadian government ordered ByteDance to wind up TikTok Technology Canada, Inc. However, the government pointed out that Canadians can still access and use TikTok by choice, the use of a social media platform is a personal choice. s operations in Canada through the establishment of TikTok Technology Canada, Inc.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

From now on, the Mark Zuckerberg’s led company faced a lawsuit against its facial recognition related data collection early this year. FB made a step forward by offering a settlement of $650 million to a data advocacy group that filed a legal suit against the use of FacioMetrics technology acquired by FB in 2016.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2023

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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SecureList

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

CloudSorcerer is a sophisticated cyber-espionage tool used for stealth monitoring, data collection and exfiltration via Microsoft, Yandex and Dropbox cloud infrastructures. The data collected about the targets’ companies and contact information could be used to spy on people of interest and lay the groundwork for future attacks.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 25, 2021

Advances in technology have dramatically influenced our online experiences throughout the digital age. We live in a data-centric society where user information is a profitable commodity, collected by any means possible. In a couple of clicks, we connect with others, shop and bank. Maintaining privacy online is far from easy.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

That’s a crazy long time for an independent media outlet these days, but then again I’m bound to keep doing this as long as they keep letting me. Tank, seen here performing as a DJ in Ukraine in an undated photo from social media. KrebsOnSecurity turns 13 years old today.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Our personal photos, private messages, and sensitive data are being used without our knowledge or consent to train AI systems. Get ready to uncover how technology companies are harvesting your data to fuel the next generation of artificial intelligence. Where possible, opt out of data collection for AI training.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Whether we’re browsing social media, playing video games, shopping for products, or simply reading news articles, trackers are silently monitoring our online behavior, fueling the ceaseless hum of countless data centers worldwide. In third place, with a 9.13% share, is Amazon Technologies.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Scammers create fake websites of known brands, fraudulent promotional campaigns, and fake accounts on social media. In recent years, an often-used fraud method has been fake mobile applications: 36% of users are unable to distinguish between genuine and fake apps, and 60% of the latter request access to the user’s personal data. .

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SecureWorld News

JULY 10, 2024

Mobile app developer settles with California attorney general for unlawful collection and sale of children's personal data? While the settlement here imposed a meaningful monetary fine on Tilting Point Media, the injunctive relief is perhaps more meaningful.

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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. like world.”

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 14, 2024

TikTok is an immensely popular social media platform that allows users to create, share, and discover, short video clips. The RESTRICT Act was introduced in the United States Senate on March 7, 2023 and requires federal actions to identify and mitigate foreign threats to information and communications technology products and services (e.g.,

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 30, 2021

Earlier this month , popular Hollywood actor Tom Cruise was trending on social media not because of a new film that he’s working on, but thanks t o TikTok videos that went viral , generating many reactions from users around the ir authenticity. .

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Approachable Cyber Threats

AUGUST 2, 2021

It’s a harsh realization we are dealing with more by the day as social media, and a litany of applications and hosted software products invade our daily lives, and in the process, our privacy. Now TikTok wants the ability to put an actual face and voice to those other data sets, and it’s… dangerous.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 27, 2022

Nisos provides the people, processes, and technologies necessary to deliver actionable intelligence as a managed service. Nisos curates target-specific keywords for tuning broad social media, open web, as well as deep and dark web collection tools. They fuse robust data collection with a deep understanding of the adversarial.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

To demonstrate the pervasiveness of this phenomenon, Source Defense researchers monitored multiple websites for 28 days and counted how many times an unnamed social media platform’s code attempted to access the site’s web form entries by default. million times from a fast casual dining chain site, approximately 22.7

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 8, 2021

This colorful chapter in the history of technology and society isn’t just breezing by unnoticed. The largest players in the tech industry need to demonstrate that they can self-regulate, or else lawmakers will take over a core asset of their business – consumer data – as demonstrated by California’s consumer privacy act.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Monitoring and tracking potential threats from the dark web, open source, and social media platforms to detect threats that could attack your organization is critical to ensure public and corporate safety and security. Clients sign up for a monthly or annual service plan. Nisos is The Managed Intelligence Company.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 17, 2025

Surveillance Tech in the News This section covers surveillance technology and methods in the news. Data Broker Brags About Having Highly Detailed Personal Information on Nearly All Internet Users Gizmodo An owner of a data broker business brags and showcases his company's ability to deliver "personalized messaging at scale."

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SC Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

The large amount and very personal types of data collected by the organization is an extremely valuable dataset for cybercriminals if they want to steal identities, said Erich Kron, security awareness advocate at KnowBe4. The post Fashion brand Guess hacked, DarkSide ransomware group the likely culprit appeared first on SC Media.

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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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Cisco Security

MARCH 31, 2021

While Cisco offers the broadest set of security technologies that covers the widest swath of threat vectors and access points, our promise to customers is that we will integrate with complementary technologies and their legacy investments. The days of the primacy of the point solution are over. Cisco SecureX: A refresher.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

This development is unfolding largely off the radar screen of the website publishers who depend on this ecosystem, says Chris Olson, CEO of the Media Trust , a 15-year-old website security vendor, based in McLean, VA that is on the front lines of mitigating this seething threat. LW: That’s a huge bucket of technology.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Consumer Expectations Privacy Rights and Seamless Online Experiences An overwhelming 87% of consumers expect privacy rights from online interactions, with the most significant expectations being the right to be informed about data collection (55%) and the right to data erasure (53%).

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Formerly known as Accel Partners, the Palo Alto-based company is a top-tier VC firm investing in consumer and enterprise solutions for segments like SaaS , fintech, hardware, media, and IT services. Notable cybersecurity exits for the company include AVG Technologies, Cognitive Security, OpenDNS, and Carbon Black. EEP Investments.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 18, 2023

It is a special malware module designed to send commands to the infected system via removable media. The same module is also responsible for transporting data collected by the malware on the infected system, which is also done via USB. USB propagation module capable of bridging the air-gapped networks.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 10, 2024

I’m proud of our success, but it wasn’t just our technology that got us here. From our safe portal, everyday people can view past password breaches, active social media profiles, potential leaks of government ID info, and more. Creating a social media account requires handing over your full name and birthdate.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Bandura Cyber is a 6-year-old supplier of threat intelligence gateway technologies. It helps organizations of all sizes but has a solution that is well suited to enable more resource constrained SMBs, tap into the myriad threat feeds being collected by a wide variety of entities and extract actionable intelligence.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 11, 2023

This was anecdotally confirmed last year, when the Lock and Code podcast spoke with a Bay Area teenager about how she and her friends obtain consent before sharing photos on social media. They are built to collect as much information as possible and to even hide that data collection from view. They are deeply concerning.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

APT targeting turns toward satellite technologies, producers and operators The only known case of an attack utilizing satellite technologies that happened in recent years was the KA-SAT network hack of 2022. The next WannaCry Fortunately for us, a new cyber epidemic did not happen. Verdict: prediction not fulfilled ❌ 4.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Between social media, mobile apps, internet-connected devices and the rise of artificial intelligence vast amounts of personal data is being gathered constantly, putting individuals’ privacy at risk,” said Lisa Plaggemier, Executive Director at NCA.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 24, 2021

And as employee monitoring tools and technology proliferate, it’s important for businesses to recognize that “you… don’t have to be so draconian and invasive, that you are completely ruining anybody’s personal privacy.”. One potential solution, said Daly, is pseudoanonymizing the data collected from workers’ computers.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 7, 2025

Consumers want efficiency2024 research from Thales found that 22% of consumers will give up after less than a minute if they're having a frustrating customer experiencebut they are suspicious of the technologies that provide that efficiency. 57% are nervous that brands' use of generative AI will put their personal data at risk.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

According to thought leaders, the compromise of video data could result in intellectual property theft, physical security threats, privacy violations, extortion and perhaps regulatory punishment. The post Camera tricks: Privacy concerns raised after massive surveillance cam breach appeared first on SC Media.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Worried about this lack of transparency, users and privacy watchdogs put pressure on technology companies. Certain tech giants recently started adding tools to their ecosystems that are meant to improve the data collection transparency. Sadly, these policies are seldom transparent enough. North America.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 11, 2022

“Users” in this case can mean your employees, your customers, or just anyone who directly interfaces with your business and your business’s data on a regular enough basis to generate patterns. A common use case for behavioral analytics is on eCommerce or media platforms. Transparency is key whenever you’re collecting user data.

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