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.

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Advertising Surveillance Engineering Encryption 213

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 192

Spyware Mobile Advertising Software 192

Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2019

The extent of the flaw is wide, according to data collected by Krstic during the study, the vulnerabilities could impact up to 10 million people and 30,000 doors at 200 facilities. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – buildings, hacking).

Hacking 95

Hacking Advertising Surveillance Data collection 95

Approachable Cyber Threats

AUGUST 2, 2021

Users must be better protected from the outset, and the only way to ensure that is to impose significant restrictions on data collection and usage by companies seeking to monetize or use it to their asymmetric benefit in any way. social engineer a mobile provider employee to facilitate a SIM swap).

Data collection 98

Data collection Media Mobile Identity Theft 98

Approachable Cyber Threats

MARCH 1, 2024

This information exchange between the user, the website, and its server improves the user's future visits as well as the websites to deliver content, services, advertisements, recommendations, and generate statistical reports. In that case, your data is accessible to both the original website and a new (possibly unknown to you) third-party.

Internet 59

Internet Internet Risk Advertising 59

Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

The creators of phishing bots and kits can get access to data that is gathered with their tools. “To attract larger audiences, scam operators advertise their services, promising to teach others how to phish for serious cash.” User personal data for sale. ” reads the post published by Kaspersky.

Phishing 96

Phishing Scams Social Engineering Banking 96

Approachable Cyber Threats

MARCH 1, 2024

This information exchange between the user, the website, and its server improves the user's future visits as well as the websites to deliver content, services, advertisements, recommendations, and generate statistical reports. In that case, your data is accessible to both the original website and a new (possibly unknown to you) third-party.

Internet 52

Internet Internet Risk Advertising 52

Krebs on Security

MAY 2, 2023

By 2008, the USPS job exam preppers had shifted to advertising their schemes mostly online. Mirza and his colleagues was actively uploading all of the device’s usernames, passwords and authentication cookies to cybercriminals based in Russia. Ditto for a case the FTC brought in 2005. com was legitimate or a scam.

Marketing 273

Marketing Advertising Scams Telecommunications 273

Security Boulevard

JANUARY 16, 2024

Privacy-oriented browsers also limit data collection and "phoning home" and telemetry activity on their backend (in this specific case, I am using "backend" to refer to the side where users don't necessarily directly interact with the browser), preserving your privacy as a user.

Accountability 109

Accountability Engineering Passwords Internet 109

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Resecurity researchers discovered a new Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) called EvilProxy advertised on the Dark Web. Resecurity has recently identified a new Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) called EvilProxy advertised in the Dark Web. Original post: [link].

Phishing 99

Phishing Accountability Hacking Advertising 99

BH Consulting

AUGUST 31, 2023

billion people are on social media , and businesses have come to rely on these channels in their everyday operations as a form of advertising, recruiting and more. The incident shows that not all hackers’ motives are financial or data collection. So in this blog, I’ll talk about the risks and steps to mitigate them. More than 4.7

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Media Accountability Authentication Passwords 52

Identity IQ

JANUARY 24, 2024

Protecting your digital footprint can help you keep your personal information and online activities private, which can be important for helping prevent identity theft , avoid targeted advertising, and maintain control over your online reputation. Many websites and services allow you to opt out of their data collection procedures.

Identity Theft 52

Identity Theft Education Media Accountability 52

SecureList

APRIL 5, 2023

As mentioned above, the creators of phishing bots and kits can get access to data collected with tools they made. To attract larger audiences, scam operators advertise their services, promising to teach others how to phish for serious cash. Legitimate services use one-time passwords as a second authentication factor.

Phishing 129

Phishing Marketing Scams Accountability 129

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 20, 2023

Period-tracking app users scrambled to find the most secure app online , and one period-tracking app maker promised to encrypt user data so that, even if law enforcement made a request for their data, the data would be unintelligible. Those promises, one investigation found, were shaky.)

Data privacy 72

Data privacy Engineering Encryption Internet 72

SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

To lend an air of authenticity and to motivate the victim to enter valid information, the swindlers warned that the victim could be prosecuted for providing false information. As a result, the person gets an automated reply from an official address of a legitimate organization, containing unsolicited advertisements or a scam link.

Phishing 102

Phishing Scams Accountability Energy and Utilities 102

Malwarebytes

APRIL 10, 2024

As we know, a lot of this data is valuable to advertisers—this is what pundits focus on when they invoke the value of “oil” in discussing modern data collection—but this data is also valuable to an entirely separate group that has learned to abuse private information in novel and frightening ways: Cybercriminals.

Data breaches 72

Data breaches Passwords Banking Malware 72

SecureList

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Don’t get upset and ask again in 5 minutes (the software is #### normalized) Format: Advertisement mail:password Hackers give buyers instructions on using a compromised account: for example, they recommend not tampering with its owners’ chats and deleting their own messages immediately after each session with the chatbot.

Accountability 114

Accountability B2B Risk Hacking 114

Security Boulevard

JUNE 15, 2023

In addition, it collects Steam and Telegram credentials as well as data related to installed cryptocurrency wallets. The malware targets more than 70 web browser extensions for cryptocurrency theft and uses the same functionality to target two-factor authentication (2FA) applications. MysticStealer forum post advertising v1.2

Cryptocurrency 52

Cryptocurrency Password Management Malware DNS 52

Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2022

The original advertisement to hopeful customers, retrieved from one of these forums and translated from Russian: Collects from browsers: Login and passwords. Data collection from FTP clients, IM clients. Use token authentication through an authenticator application. Autocomplete fields. Credit cards.

Cybersecurity 98

Cybersecurity Social Engineering Passwords Malware 98

Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2021

While these alt platforms largely position themselves as “free speech” alternatives, we at CyberNews were also interested in how these alt social platforms compare in terms of data collection. Users would need to read both Triller’s and Quickblox’ privacy policies to get a good idea of how their data is being collected and processed.

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Data collection Accountability Media Advertising 122

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2022

Wazawaka used multiple email addresses and nicknames on several Russian crime forums, but data collected by cybersecurity firm Constella Intelligence show that Wazawaka’s alter egos always used one of three fairly unique passwords: 2k3x8x57 , 2k3X8X57 , and 00virtual. ” WHO IS WAZAWAKA?

DDOS 271

DDOS Accountability Cybercrime Ransomware 271

ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

You have to show to me that you're using multi factor authentication that you're doing vulnerability scanning and mitigation that you're harming your niche. VAMOSI: That’s on the data collection side. you're aligning to a framework, whatever. These are becoming.

Internet 40

Internet Internet Insurance Cyber Insurance 40

ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Vamosi: So ransomware started with like individuals being compromised and their data collected and $300 in Bitcoin and then it became commercialized to industries and so first ransomware. If I'm constantly if I'm being asked for a second factor of authentication, as long as that's secure, and I think hardware token is the way to go.

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Ransomware Encryption Cybercrime Government 40