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Ransomware en masse on the wane: top threats inside web-phishing in H1 2020

Security Affairs

Web-phishing targeting various online services almost doubled during the COVID-19 pandemic , it accounted for 46 percent of the total number of fake web pages. In the first six months of 2020, CERT-GIB blocked a total of 9 304 phishing web resources, which is an increase of 9 percent compared to the previous year. Secure web- phishing.

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FBI: Cybercrime Shot Up in 2020 Amidst Pandemic

CyberSecurity Insiders

In 2020, as the world grappled with a fast-spreading global pandemic, the FBI received more than 2,000 complaints each day, totaling 791,790 for the year. billion in losses, according to data collected by the FBI’s The Internet Complaint Center (IC3). The COVID-19 pandemic played a major role in cybercriminal activities in 2020.

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Google to pay $40m for "deceptive and unfair" location tracking practices

Malwarebytes

Practices highlighted included “hard to find” location settings, misleading descriptions of location settings, and “repeated nudging” to enable location settings alongside incomplete disclosures of Google’s location data collection.

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Rapid7 InsightIDR Review: Features & Benefits

eSecurity Planet

Rapid7 combines threat intelligence , security research, data collection, and analytics in its comprehensive Insight platform, but how does its detection and response solution – InsightIDR – compare to other cybersecurity solutions? Gartner Magic Quadrant and Gartner Peer Insights. 169 Application Security Testing 4.3

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MY TAKE: Why monetizing data lakes will require applying ‘attribute-based’ access rules to encryption

The Last Watchdog

The amount of data in the world topped an astounding 59 zetabytes in 2020, much of it pooling in data lakes. We’ve barely scratched the surface of applying artificial intelligence and advanced data analytics to the raw data collecting in these gargantuan cloud-storage structures erected by Amazon, Microsoft and Google.

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Why car location tracking needs an overhaul

Malwarebytes

In 2023, Reuters reported that a San Francisco woman sued her husband in 2020 for allegations of “assault and sexual battery.” Because the separate woman was a “primary” account owner, she was able to remove the car’s access to the internet, Reuters reported. This was far from an isolated incident.

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What’s in the NIST Privacy Framework 1.1?

Centraleyes

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) plans to update the Privacy Framework to Version 1.1. This announcement comes four years after the release of the original framework in January 2020. On the other hand, privacy risk concerns protecting individuals’ data and ensuring compliance with privacy regulations.