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Election season raises fears for nearly a third of people who worry their vote could be leaked

Malwarebytes

The network of data brokers that political campaigns rely on to target voters with ads is enormous, as one Washington Post reporter found in 2020, with “3,000 data points on every voter.” Escaping this data collection regime has proven difficult for most people.

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Comparing Antivirus Software 2025: Avast vs. AVG

eSecurity Planet

The service is expensive, and the features it does offer aren’t really all that different from most any other antivirus platform on the market. In 2020 , the company harvested users’ browsing data, particularly data collected from Avast and AVG’s free versions and browser extensions, to be monetized through company subsidiary Jumpshot.

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The year 2020 witnessed these biggest GDPR fines

CyberSecurity Insiders

million or €50 million penalty in March 2020 by the France data watchdog for failing to provide transparent information to users about its rules and regulations pertaining to data collection related to its products and services. Google was awarded $56.6 Telecom Italia aka TIM was also hit by a GDPR fine of $31.5

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Why You Should Opt Out of Sharing Data With Your Mobile Provider

Krebs on Security

A new breach involving data from nine million AT&T customers is a fresh reminder that your mobile provider likely collects and shares a great deal of information about where you go and what you do with your mobile device — unless and until you affirmatively opt out of this data collection.

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SHARED INTEL: VCs pumped $21.8 billion into cybersecurity in 2021 — why there’s more to come

The Last Watchdog

The top drivers of the continued growth of cybersecurity are: the growing need to protect the API supply chain, the inadequacy of existing identity management systems, and the unfulfilled promise of data-driven AI-powered cybersecurity systems. The SolarWinds attack made API supply chain security a front-page story in 2020.

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GUEST ESSAY: Here’s why managed security services — MSS and MSSP — are catching on

The Last Watchdog

Here’s more on the various types and benefits of MSS, as well as the state of the MSS(P) market in 2022! The current unification in the cybersecurity market is driving a massive movement towards fewer vendors, which at the same time means more polarization of either using MSS/MSSP or doing the security work internally. MSSPs in 2022.

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Hacking Wi-Fi networks by exploiting a flaw in Philips Smart Light Bulbs

Security Affairs

Security experts from Check Point discovered a high-severity flaw ( CVE-2020-6007 ) in Philips Hue Smart Light Bulbs that can be exploited by hackers to gain entry into a targeted WiFi network. Smart lightbulbs are managed over the air via WiFi protocol or ZigBee, a low bandwidth radio protocol. ZigBee is an IEEE 802.15.4-based

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