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Password Management 67

Password Management Small Business Software Artificial Intelligence 67

Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 18, 2024

As I have warned for decades, just as they are in the physical world, “too good to be true” prices found online are often scams; one should be especially careful when dealing with retailers who advertise such prices but who are also previously unknown to the buyer.

Data collection 284

Data collection Retail Scams Marketing 284

Krebs on Security

MARCH 20, 2023

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.

Mobile 333

Mobile Wireless Advertising Telecommunications 333

The Last Watchdog

MAY 21, 2020

The idea was that by fingerprinting devices used to connect to the internet we could achieve better accountability. Fingerprinting is considered a necessary practice to fight challenges such as fake accounts and the misuse of internet services. At the same time, the profile that advertisers can create reveals a lot.

Advertising 290

Advertising Accountability Internet Internet 290

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Justice Department , FBI agents have identified more than 50 million unique credentials and forms of identification (email addresses, bank accounts, cryptocurrency addresses, credit card numbers, etc.) A selfie pulled from Mark Sokolovsky’s iCloud account. Working with investigators in Italy and The Netherlands, U.S.

Malware 354

Malware Identity Theft Cybercrime Accountability 354

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Some third-party apps quietly scraped personal information from people’s accounts from Twitter and Facebook, the social media companies claim. Facebook and Twitter revealed that some third-party apps quietly scraped personal information from people’s accounts without their consent. Pierluigi Paganini.

Accountability 145

Accountability Mobile Advertising Marketing 145

Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

net , a service that advertised to cybercriminals seeking to obfuscate their malicious software so that it goes undetected by all or at least most of the major antivirus products on the market. net , which advertised “free unlimited internet file-sharing platform” for those who agreed to install their software.

VPN 362

VPN Computers and Electronics Antivirus Software 362

Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 16, 2021

million fine by Norwegian regulator Datatilsynet for sharing data with advertisers. Grindr—which call itself the world’s largest social networking app for gay, bi, trans, and queer people—sold data which includes GPS, IP address, age, and gender. Shared data. Dating network Grindr has been slapped with a US$7.7

Advertising 107

Advertising Marketing Data collection Mobile 107

eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In the world of cybersecurity, the path of least resistance has consistently been shown to be the human element, specifically user accounts with enough access privileges or credentials for the cybercriminal to execute their plan. Compromised employee account login information was also the costliest infection vector for enterprises.

Advertising 125

Advertising Cybersecurity DDOS Data breaches 125

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 26, 2020

Ngo’s businesses enabled an entire generation of cybercriminals to commit an estimated $1 billion worth of new account fraud , and to sully the credit histories of countless Americans in the process. info , a website that advertised the sale of individual consumer records. . ” Freshly released from the U.S.

Identity Theft 361

Identity Theft Computers and Electronics Hacking Accountability 361

Schneier on Security

MARCH 13, 2019

Increased transparency over advertiser and app accesses to user data. Today, Facebook users can download and view much of the data the company has about them. The company could be more transparent about what data it shares with advertisers and others and how it allows advertisers to select users they show ads to.

Surveillance 240

Surveillance Advertising Encryption Engineering 240

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Less than a week ago, security researcher Nitish Shah directed KrebsOnSecurity to an open database on the Web that allowed anyone to query up-to-the-minute mSpy records for both customer transactions at mSpy’s site and for mobile phone data collected by mSpy’s software. The database required no authentication.

Spyware 251

Spyware Mobile Advertising Software 251

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The scripts developed by the cyber criminal were used to parse log data collected from botnet and searched for personally identifiable information (PII) and account credentials. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” reads the press release published by the DoJ.

Accountability 126

Accountability Banking Advertising Data collection 126

Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2019

A new story of a violation of the user’s privacy made the lines, Twitter revealed that due to a bug is collected and shared iOS location data with a third-party advertising company, Fortunately, only one partner of the micro-blogging firm was involved and the data collection and sharing occurred in certain circumstances.

Advertising 106

Advertising Accountability Data collection Mobile 106

Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2019

The experts also observed a significant increase in the number of unique bots and trolls (+48%) from the previous day, a circumstance that suggests the involvement of an army of dormant Twitter bot accounts previously created. Data collected by SafeGuard confirm the intensification of the presence of Russian bots on Twitter.

Data collection 107

Data collection Advertising Accountability Media 107

Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Meta's near-omnipresence wherever you are online enabled it to gather data on users, even those who don't have Facebook accounts—thanks, in part, to the Facebook "Like" button, a piece of code embedded on most websites. Something similar happens to users who are either logged out of Facebook or don't have an account.

Data collection 98

Data collection Advertising Accountability Technology 98

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

The security researcher that handle the Twitter account Privacy First first reported the alleged unethical behavior and published a video that shows how the app harvest users ‘data. “The data collected was explicitly identified to the customer in the data collection policy and is highlighted to the user during the install.

Adware 109

Adware Data collection Advertising Antivirus 109

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The data breach impacted 562,000 subscribers, the forum has been taken offline after the incident. We’ve been alerted that portions of the PHPBB user table from our forums showed up in a leaked data collection.” New breach: XKCD had 562k accounts breached last month. SecurityAffairs – XKCD, data breach).

Data breaches 108

Data breaches Passwords Data collection Advertising 108

SecureList

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

This information allows businesses to personalize experiences, improve user engagement, target advertising more efficiently, and measure the performance of their online services. Google Display & Video 360 is a tool for managing advertising campaigns. This system had the largest share among the TOP 25 tracking systems in Asia.

Advertising 124

Advertising Technology Marketing Media 124

SecureWorld News

APRIL 29, 2024

Information collected by online trackers is often shared with an extensive network of marketers, advertisers, and data brokers. Once shared, advertisers have used this information to target ads at users for complimentary products (based on health data); this has happened multiple times in the past few years, including at GoodRx.

Data breaches 113

Data breaches Healthcare Identity Theft Advertising 113

Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The conclusions seemed to upset the FTC, but we weren’t even mildly surprised: “The amount of data collected by large tech companies is simply staggering. Many of the responding companies relied on selling advertising services to other businesses based largely on using the personal information of their users.

Surveillance 122

Surveillance Media Data collection Advertising 122

Malwarebytes

MAY 23, 2023

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.

Advertising 98

Advertising Accountability Data collection Engineering 98

Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2019

“Facebook was investigating Rankwave’s data practices in relation to its advertising and marketing services,” Facebook was investigating the advertising and marketing activities of the South Korean company and accused it of the lack of co-operation in demonstrating compliance with Facebook policies.

Advertising 96

Advertising Data collection Marketing Media 96

Malwarebytes

JULY 29, 2024

At Malwarebytes, we reported how a team of researchers at Mozilla who reviewed the privacy and data collection policies of various product categories for several years now, named “Privacy Not Included,” found cars to be the worst product category they ever reviewed for privacy.

Insurance 113

Insurance Data collection Data breaches Manufacturing 113

Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2019

A flaw could have allowed hackers to take over any Instagram account in 10 minutes. Mysterious hackers steal data of over 70% of Bulgarians. Sprint revealed that hackers compromised some customer accounts via Samsung site. Poland and Lithuania fear that data collected via FaceApp could be misused.

Small Business 92

Small Business Media Spyware DNS 92

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 25, 2024

The threat actor is abusing Google advertiser accounts to create malicious ads and pointing them to pages where unsuspecting users will download Remote Administration Trojan (RATs) instead. While we don’t know the threat actor’s true intentions, data collection and spying may be one of their motives.

Malware 124

Malware Advertising Accountability Encryption 124

Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 27, 2022

A new form of digital advertising is looking to make its way to you courtesy of video gaming. Let’s take a look at how advertising has been used in an Amazon gaming title previously, and see how that could create a frosty reception for any new ad technology. The sliding doors of advertising banners. How does this work?

Technology 98

Technology Advertising Marketing Data collection 98

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

link ) was posted on Pastebin , the hacker claims to have compromised user’s email and also accused ProtonMail of sending user’s decrypted data to American servers. AmFearLiathMor also wrote that ProtonMail hasn’t configured the mandatory Subresource Integrity ( SRI ) allowing tampering and data collection.

Scams 111

Scams Hacking Data collection Advertising 111

SecureList

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Certain tech giants recently started adding tools to their ecosystems that are meant to improve the data collection transparency. This was right around the time when the search giant announced plans to rebrand the DoubleClick advertising platform and merge it with its advertising ecosystem.

Internet 99

Internet Internet Advertising Marketing 99

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

percent of all the data collected, followed by TP-Link that accounted for 9.07%. Let me suggest to read to read the report , is full of interesting data. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

IoT 106

IoT Passwords Malware Advertising 106

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.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Passwords Accountability Media 111

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

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. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

Phishing 136

Phishing Ransomware Spyware Banking 136

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. .

Marketing 104

Marketing Phishing Media Engineering 104

Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2022

In reality, this level of data collection is not as uncommon as is being suggested. The app collects how much data? How can apps collect data? These are a staple diet of Out of Home (OOH) advertising. That’s one theory, anyway. That was expected behaviour. The investigation findings.

Mobile 119

Mobile Data collection Advertising Marketing 119

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

“Google misled its users into thinking they had turned off location tracking in their account settings, when, in fact, Google continued to collect their location information. Location data represent the core of the digital advertising business of the IT giant. ” reads the DoJ’s press release.

Consumer Protection 98

Consumer Protection Accountability Data collection Advertising 98

Malwarebytes

JUNE 6, 2023

Microsoft is counting the cost of privacy violations, with $20m in fines related to illegal data collection from children’s Xbox accounts. Microsoft was holding on to that data even in situations where the account didn’t complete the registration process.

Accountability 96

Accountability Advertising Data collection Manufacturing 96

Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

” “We’re the #1 result,” Basecamp’s ad copy continued, “but this site lets companies advertise against us using our brand. percent of the online advertising market ) and pay to show up in search results. The copy: “We don’t want to run this ad.” So here we are.

Advertising 115

Advertising Marketing Data collection Accountability 115