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The Telegram phishing market

SecureList

The Telegram black market: what’s on offer After reviewing phishers’ Telegram channels that we detected, we broke down the services they promoted into paid and free. As mentioned above, the creators of phishing bots and kits can get access to data collected with tools they made. The calls are fully automated.

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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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Top 7 CIAM tools

CSO Magazine

Customer identity and access management (CIAM), a subset of identity access management (IAM), is used to manage authentication and authorization of account creation and login process for public facing applications. Marketers want to collect data about customers and their devices.

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Facebook and Twitter warn of malicious SDK harvesting personal data from its accounts

Security Affairs

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.

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LLM Summary of My Book Beyond Fear

Schneier on Security

Human psychology and biases lead to exaggerated fears that politicians/marketers can exploit, resulting in wasteful and theatrical “security theater.” Where possible, favor openness and transparency over aggressive data collection or restrictions which erode civil liberties. Focus only on proportional responses.

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Online Businesses Often Steal And Exploit Customer Data Collected During Cancelled Transactions

Joseph Steinberg

Some such cancellations occurred prior to the retailer sending me any email confirmation of the associated transactions, but, in some cases, the retailer cancelled the associated sale after not only confirming by email the purchase, but also after having charged my credit card and waiting for the associated debit to post to my account.

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Accused ‘Raccoon’ Malware Developer Fled Ukraine After Russian Invasion

Krebs on Security

Attorney for the Western District of Texas unsealed an indictment last week that named Mark Sokolvsky as the core developer for the Raccoon Infostealer business, which was marketed on several Russian-language cybercrime forums beginning in 2019. A selfie pulled from Mark Sokolovsky’s iCloud account. According to the U.S.

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