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GUEST ESSAY: A call to decentralize social identities — to curtail social media privacy abuses

The Last Watchdog

Social media giants have long held too much power over our digital identities. Related: Google, Facebook promote third-party snooping Today, no one is immune to these giants’ vicious cycle of collecting personal data, selling it to advertisers, and manipulating users with data metrics.

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Ex-Michigan, Ravens Football Coach Charged with Hacking Athlete Accounts

Security Boulevard

Matthew Weiss, former football coach for the University of Michigan and the Baltimore Ravens, for almost 10 years accessed the social media and other online accounts of thousands of student athletes and downloaded personal information and intimate images, said prosecutors who indicted for illegal computer access and identity theft.

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Sprint Exposed Customer Support Site to Web

Krebs on Security

A review of the exposed support forum by this author suggests that while none of the posts exposed customer information such as payment card data, a number of them did include customer account information, such customer names, device identifiers and in some cases location information.

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Data Privacy Day: Know your rights, and the right tools to stay private

Malwarebytes

Not all data privacy rights are the same. There’s the flimsy, the firm, the enforceable, and the antiquated, and, unfortunately, much of what determines the quality of your own data privacy rights is little more than your home address. The tangled web of US data privacy rights and laws. Just user choice.

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The World of Scambaiting, Preventing Social Media Account Takeovers, Network Wrenches Hacked

Security Boulevard

Then they switch to the best practices to prevent social media account takeovers, highlighting […] The post The World of Scambaiting, Preventing Social Media Account Takeovers, Network Wrenches Hacked appeared first on Shared Security Podcast.

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Securing Your Organization's Digital Media Assets

SecureWorld News

Business media assets have become exceptionally valuable intellectual property for brands in recent years. Data breaches that compromise proprietary media content can be financially frustrating at best, and completely shatter an organization's reputation at worst. What are digital media assets?

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Why Data Privacy Day matters

Malwarebytes

Our Lock and Code special episode on Data Privacy Day, featuring guests from Mozilla, DuckDuckGo, and Electronic Frontier Foundation can be listened to here. Today, as Malwarebytes commemorates Data Privacy Day, so, too, do many others. Why does data privacy matter? Privacy is core to a safer Internet.