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GUEST ESSAY: A breakout of how Google, Facebook, Instagram enable third-party snooping

The Last Watchdog

To provide even further insight into the data safety and privacy practices of app developers, researchers at Incogni conducted a study of the top 500 paid and top 500 free Google Play Store apps. Among the app categories, shopping, business, and food & drink were found to be sharing the most user data. percent share names.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 370 by Pierluigi Paganini

Security Affairs

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs for free in your email box. Security Affairs is one of the finalists for the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS. Please vote for Security Affairs and Pierluigi Paganini in every category that includes them (e.g. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Google expert detailed a 5-Year-Old flaw in Apple Safari exploited in the wild

Security Affairs

“This blog is the story of a “zombie” Safari 0-day and how it came back from the dead to be disclosed as exploited in-the-wild in 2022. The developers responding to the initial bug report in 2013 followed a lot of best-practices.” ” reads the post published by Google Project Zero. To nominate, please visit:?.

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GUEST ESSAY – Here’s how web-scraping proxies preserve anonymity while aiding data access

The Last Watchdog

While there are several types of proxies, we can easily group them into two categories based on the types of internet protocols (IP) they offer. These two categories are data center and residential proxies. Some of the best use cases for this type of proxy includes: •Accessing geo-restricted content.

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Microsoft warns of new highly evasive web skimming campaigns

Security Affairs

The term web skimming refers to the criminal practice to harvest payment information of visitors of a website during checkout. Security Affairs is one of the finalists for the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS. Some skimming scripts also included anti-debugging mechanisms. Pierluigi Paganini.

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GUEST ESSAY: Addressing data leaks and other privacy, security exposures attendant to M&As

The Last Watchdog

So what are some of the specific security risks and challenges that organizations face and best practices to help close the cybersecurity gap in each stage? They can be divided into two categories: Pre-Close Risks. This due diligence process should account for: •Deal information exposure.

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API Security Best Practices

Security Affairs

Best Practices To Help Improve And Secure Your Organizational APIs. Therefore, implementing the following best practices will help improve your security posture and protect your APIs and organization. A secure coding and configuration practice for developing APIs should be created. To nominate, please visit:?.