Approachable Cyber Threats

AUGUST 2, 2021

Should TikTok be breached, like many companies before them, your data can be obtained by hackers and scammers. 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.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 24, 2024

How to Help Protect Your Digital Footprint IdentityIQ Every click, search, and interaction online contributes to your digital footprint – an intricate trail of data that encapsulates your digital identity. Be Mindful of Your Online Accounts Your online accounts are key access points to your digital identity.

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Centraleyes

APRIL 15, 2024

Maryland Takes the Lead in Privacy Legislation with Comprehensive MODPA The Maryland legislature enacted two comprehensive privacy bills to limit how big tech platforms can acquire and utilize customers’ and children’s data. Notably, MODPA prohibits the sale of sensitive data, a provision unparalleled in other state privacy laws.

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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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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 15, 2024

Pivoting on the email address used to register that vanity domain, DomainTools.com finds several other domains whose history offers a clearer picture of the types of data sources relied upon by National Public Data. Identity theft and new account fraud is not a problem that gets easier to solve by letting it fester.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

On the other hand, we saw the repeal of Roe vs Wade and the subsequent controversy surrounding female reproductive health data in the US as well as investigations into companies selling fine-grained commercial data and facial recognition services to law enforcement. One way to do that might be to insure yourself against data breaches.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Babel Street’s LocateX platform also allows customers to track individual mobile users by their Mobile Advertising ID or MAID , a unique, alphanumeric identifier built into all Google Android and Apple mobile devices. How are advertisers and data brokers gaining access to so much information?

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The scheme likely aimed at identity theft: the illegal use of others’ personal details for deriving profit. The cybercrooks might also use the data to contact their victims later, staging a more convincing swindle. For example, spammers actively advertised services of a company transporting people to Russia.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 17, 2025

With Meta’s “Pay or OK” system, users face a choice between two options nobody asked for: either pay a monthly subscription fee to avoid targeted ads and tracking, or accept extensive data collection and personalized advertising in exchange for free access. If you don’t want your data tracked, you must pay.

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