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The Not-so-True People-Search Network from China

Krebs on Security

It’s not unusual for the data brokers behind people-search websites to use pseudonyms in their day-to-day lives (you would, too). Some of these personal data purveyors even try to reinvent their online identities in a bid to hide their conflicts of interest. Scouring multiple image search sites reveals Ms.

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You Can Now Ask Google to Remove Your Phone Number, Email or Address from Search Results

Krebs on Security

Google said this week it is expanding the types of data people can ask to have removed from search results, to include personal contact information like your phone number, email address or physical address. According to recent estimates, Google enjoys somewhere near 90 percent market share in search engine usage.

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Top 10 IdentityIQ Blog Posts of 2022

Identity IQ

Top 10 IdentityIQ Blog Posts of 2022. With a final look back at 2022, we’re rounding up the most searched and visited blog posts from last year. Our readers were interested in topics that covered how criminals can steal their money, access their personal data or take over their accounts or devices. IdentityIQ.

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The world’s most searched-for cyber attacks and prevention measures

Security Boulevard

Searches for cyber threats have seen a steady increase worldwide, particularly in the last year, proving that it’s a major concern for people all around the world. In fact, according to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach report, the average cost of a data breach has reached an all-time high, climbing 12.7%, from $3.86

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Spanish police make 34 arrests, dismantling cybercriminal gang that stole 4 million people’s data

Graham Cluley

Spanish police have arrested 34 suspected members of a criminal gang that are alleged to have run a variety of scams to steal data from over four million people. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

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The Data Breach "Personal Stash" Ecosystem

Troy Hunt

That's the analogy I often use to describe the data breach "personal stash" ecosystem, but with one key difference: if you trade a baseball card then you no longer have the original card, but if you trade a data breach which is merely a digital file, it replicates. The same incidents appear here: And so on and so forth.

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April’s Patch Tuesday Brings Record Number of Fixes

Krebs on Security

Microsoft today released updates to address 147 security holes in Windows, Office , Azure ,NET Framework , Visual Studio , SQL Server , DNS Server , Windows Defender , Bitlocker , and Windows Secure Boot. Yes, you read that right. “As far as I can tell, it’s the largest Patch Tuesday release from Microsoft of all time.”

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