CSO Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2022

Data intelligence company BigID announced this week at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas that it has rolled out new features for its privacy and data protection platform, allowing users to programmatically restrict access to sensitive cloud-based information when it’s under threat. To read this article in full, please click here

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Threatpost

JANUARY 30, 2020

The settlement in a case over the social network’s Tag Suggestions feature is the latest financial blow the company has taken over its handling of user privacy.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 6, 2023

The basic principle of these tags is that anyone with the matching app and permissions on their device (usually a phone) contributes to find the last location where the tag was detected. Examples of these accessories are the Apple AirTag, Tile Mate and Pro, Samsung SmartTag, and Google’s expected Grogu.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 19, 2019

owski has a really good essay explaining how to think about privacy today: For the purposes of this essay, I'll call it "ambient privacy" -- the understanding that there is value in having our everyday interactions with one another remain outside the reach of monitoring, and that the small details of our daily lives should pass by unremembered.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In a surprising revelation, over 72% of Americans stated they distrust Facebook and its management regarding data and privacy. The post Facebook turns least trusted website in America over data and privacy appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 17, 2022

Most recently, it’s reported that Ohio has proposed a new bill in relation to electronic tagging devices. She only became aware of what was happening because her phone alerted her to the tag’s presence. Smart stalkers will place tags on items or in places victims won’t suspect. Turn Find My iPhone on.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 13, 2021

Google Chrome seems to have taken data privacy seriously as it is ditching its usual cookies technology to be replace it by FloC technology. Each person’s identity will be kept under wraps and instead their profile will be tagged with a number through an AI based algorithm called SimHash.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Apple says this is by design, but that response seems at odds with the company’s own privacy policy. ” The policy explains users can disable all location services entirely with one swipe (by navigating to Settings > Privacy > Location Services, then switching “Location Services” to “off”).

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

You may have seen this feature in action if you have ever uploaded a picture to Facebook and seen how it can suggest people to tag within the photo. This type of technology has caused a litany of privacy concerns, many of which are nicely summarized by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit which advocates for digital privacy.

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Technology 57

Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2019

Pr0gramm’s top members accused KrebsOnSecurity of violating their privacy, even though all of the research published about them was publicly available online. Please tag your donation bills properly if they shall be accounted. The official tag is ‘krebsspende.’ “cancer”). .

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Cisco Security

JANUARY 18, 2023

What is clear is that security practitioners see the new standard as offering greater privacy and end-to-end data security for their organizations, and that the long wait for its advancement is over. standard, adoption still comes with a significant price tag – one that many organizations are just not yet ready or able to consume.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Tech advances are accelerating the use of facial recognition as a reliable and ubiquitous mass surveillance tool, privacy advocates warn. Assuming privacy concerns get addressed, much wider consumer uses are envisioned in areas such as marketing, retailing and health services. Related: Drivers behind facial recognition boom.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

NOTE- Any data thought to be personal or sensitive will be removed from analysis and tagged in such a way that capturing it in the future is next to impossible. Therefore, all those concerned about privacy might take a big sigh of relief, as they can stay assured of their sensitive data falling into government or wrong hands.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Malwarebytes Premium blocks the subdomain oyglk.altairaquilae.top How to recover from a Facebook scam You can recognize this type of scam because they usually tag several friends of the victim. Select Settings & Privacy , then click Settings. Other blocks we encountered during our research: Malwarebytes Premium blocks 188.114.96.0

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 28, 2021

It’s Data Privacy Day—the perennial event that many internet users may have never heard of, but have strong feelings and opinions about the very things that birthed it in the first place. Check your browser’s privacy options. Vulnerable or malicious add-ons can easily become a privacy and security risk.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 30, 2023

This work of, say, tagging a cabinet as a cabinet, or a TV as a TV, or a shelf as a shelf, would help the robot vacuums "learn" about their surroundings when inside people's homes. In response to MIT Technology Review's reporting, iRobot stressed that none of the images found by the outlet came from customers. Tune in today.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 8, 2021

Source: Horti Daily) A federal judge has approved a $650m settlement of a privacy lawsuit against Facebook for allegedly using photo face-tagging and other biometric data without the permission of its users. Other cybersecurity news. Source: The Guardian) Google shared a PoC exploit for a critical Windows 10 Graphics RCE bug.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The suit contains arguments that Facebook’s now-defunct photo-tagging feature illegally collected data about Texan people’s faces, including those who are non-Facebook users but were tagged by someone who is, without asking for consent. Paxton filed the lawsuit on Monday in the state’s Harrison County District Court.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

And Douyin, a successor to the above stated Chinese short video app is also tagged as a global hit, as it has found a second place in the list with over 55.8 TikTok, that was developed by Chinese firm ByteDance has topped the list of most popular and downloaded apps worldwide in this year with over 57 million installs.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

The Tor Project has raised $86,000 for a Bug Smash fund that was created to pay developers that will address critical security and privacy issues in the popular anonymizing network. SecurityAffairs – Tor Project, privacy). ” reads the announcement published by the Tor Project. ” concludes the announcement.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Lockdown your privacy settings Your online profiles are like open books to cyber snoops unless you lock them down. Take a few minutes to review and adjust your privacy settings on platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. Limit who can see your posts, tag you in photos, or slide into your DMs without an invitation.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Use parental, privacy, and safety settings in-game, app stores, and on devices. Teach children to never disclose personally identifiable information (PII), to use avatars instead of their photo and ensure gamer tags never include PII. Tips for Safe Online Gaming for Families.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Facebook is using the face recognition system to analyze photos taken of tagged users and associated users’ profile photos to automatically recognize them in photos and videos. Facebook announced it will stop using the Face Recognition system on its platform and will delete over 1 billion people’s facial recognition profiles.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2024

DDR would, in effect, “tag” data so that a GPS-type homing beacon would keep a gapless record of where it went, who accessed it, what they did with it, and (with the help of some cyber sleuthing) perhaps why. The second benefit is what we’ll be focusing on today. DDR Knows What Your Data Did Last Summer Then, along came a revolutionary idea.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Datacenter Proxies: this blog post examines the contours of each type and provides info on how to choose the perfect proxy option In the robust landscape of the digital era, our need for privacy, security, and accessibility on the internet has never been more acute. So, how do you choose between the knight and the maverick?

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 15, 2022

Cookies are in the news as Mozilla rolls out significant privacy changes for Firefox. The idea is to dramatically lessen the risk of privacy-invading tracking across websites without your knowledge. Numerous questions of privacy and safety exist. It’s just there , and there’s not much you can do about it.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 14, 2021

Not only do people delete Instagram for their wellbeing, but they remove it for privacy concerns. Click Privacy and Security on a computer or tap Security on Android or iPhone. Here are some measures that may help you improve your security and privacy on Instagram: Set a long, unique password.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The rush to be the first to incorporate a similar large language model (LLM) into their own offerings (read: search engines) may have left a lot of opportunities to bypass the active restrictions such as bias, privacy concerns, and the difficulties with abstract concepts or lack of context. Privacy risks should never spread beyond a headline.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 1, 2023

The importance of metadata to user privacy is simply under emphasized. The leaking/capture of metadata is just as privacy invasive as directly reading message contents in many cases, despite the downplaying by the entities who rely on data collection via metadata. TABLE OF CONTENTS What is metadata? How to protect metadata?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Being an essential part of data protection, the process of data inventory involves data discovery and data classification, helping organizations to understand, remediate, and manage privacy risks. Applying persistent classification tags to data is essential and allows your organizations to track their use.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2020

“Clips from the hacked footage have been uploaded on pornographic sites recently, with several explicitly tagged as being from Singapore.” When smart devices are set up, they are still regularly placed around the home with no second thought for privacy,” said ESET Security Specialist Jake Moore.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The attackers appends the affiliate tags to the URL and any purchase made on the site will generate a commission for the operators. The Dormant Colors operations relies on the affiliation to 10,000 targeted sites and uses a network of millions of infected computers worldwide.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 1, 2022

Plus, that sounds a lot better than tagging another tracker on us. The advertisers and publishers that you’ve consented to could be drawn up in a list that will be in the hands of the ISP, but you can manage your consent for those parties at any time via the Privacy Portal. Hiding consent. Mitigation.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Traditional approaches to data classification use manual tagging which is labor-intensive, error-prone, and not easily scalable. CipherTrust DDC is pre-built with more than 250 infotypes (entities), covering the vast majority of regional and global data privacy laws and regulations.

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BH Consulting

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Recital 30 of the GDPR outlines how a person may be associated with online identifiers their devices and apps provide, such as IP addresses, cookie identifiers and identification tags. Companies may get permission to process this personal data either by having consent or a legitimate interest. The post New to cookies?

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Advertising 121

Security Boulevard

AUGUST 4, 2021

Signed Tags. Although this check does not verify the signature, it does look for cryptographically signed tags in the last five tags. Developers often use tags to mark versions. An annotated tag can be stored as a full object in the database, providing information like: Tagger name.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 31, 2023

In her remaining spare time, Rachel is the Chair of the Board for the nonprofit Women in Security and Privacy (WISP), where she works to advance women to lead in the fields. This is the first of a five-part series from Ed Amoroso of TAG Cyber exploring the risks to cloud email environments. Check out the entire series.

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