Troy Hunt

JUNE 30, 2022

Later in 2018, I did the same thing with the email address search feature used by Mozilla, 1Password and a handful of other paying subscribers. Every time this very blog loads Font Awesome from Cloudflare's CDN, for example, it's verified against the hash in the integrity attribute of the script tag (view source for yourself).

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2022

For instance, the The Last Watchdog article you are reading uses a CMS to store posts, display them in an attractive manner, and provide search capabilities. Wikipedia uses a CMS for textual entries, blog posts, images, photographs, videos, charts, graphics, and “ talk pages ” that help its many contributors collaborate. Gierlinger.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 30, 2020

“I – together with our board of directors – have decided to terminate the Jumpshot data collection and wind down Jumpshot’s operations, with immediate effect,” Avast CEO Ondrej Vlcek announced in a blog , going on to say “that the data collection business is not inline with our privacy priorities in a company in 2020 and beyond.”.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 25, 2018

Often, it's after someone has searched Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) and found themselves pwned somewhere or other. thanks @troyhunt for the excellent @haveibeenpwned service that notifies users of #privacy disasters like this :) [link] pic.twitter.com/jlqnKXteDG — Yale Privacy Lab (@YalePrivacyLab) June 4, 2018.

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Google Security

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Posted by Nataliya Stanetsky, Android Security and Privacy Team Keeping Google Play safe for users and developers remains a top priority for Google. The transparency of an app’s data security and privacy play a key role in a user’s decision to download, trust, and use an app.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 13, 2021

In recent years, brands have started butting up against the line between convenience and privacy. Related: Apple battles Facebook over consumer privacy. Here we’ll discuss the implications to the third-party tracking and data which has been most impacted by recent privacy regulations and protocols. Degrees of privacy.

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 7, 2023

There's no change for 60% of domains that have previously been searched, a negligible cost for the next 10% of them with the remainder paying commensurately more based on their scale. Just one more thing with the domain search API: it only makes sense to hit it after a new breach is loaded. Thanks Brendan!

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Malwarebytes

JULY 6, 2022

In a post to “The Keyword” blog last week, Google said it will act further in protecting its users’ privacy by automatically deleting historical records of visits to sensitive locations. Google didn’t mention anything about this in its blog. Google is one of those companies.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 27, 2018

The anonymity API isn't just great for privacy, it's also great for speed. In that blog post, I showed how I got the speed of the "Range-GET" operation down to only 54ms whilst the old API that pulled a result by either plain text of full SHA-1 hash sat around 81ms. The range search has awesome cacheability.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 25, 2024

Reference Tool simplifies implementation, enabling users to access, search, and export core guidance data in user-friendly and machine-readable formats. The Cybersecurity and Privacy Reference Tool (CPRT) contextualizes NIST resources with other popular references, facilitating communication across all levels of an organization.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 4, 2020

Since launching version 2 of Pwned Passwords with the k-anonymity model just over 2 years ago now, the thing has really gone nuts (read that blog post for background otherwise nothing from here on will make much sense). The anonymity value is that from my perspective running the service, all I know is that someone is searching for "21bd1".

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

A search in Google for a string of text from that script turns up a December 2023 blog post from cryptocurrency security firm SlowMist about phishing attacks on Telegram from North Korean state-sponsored hackers. “When the project team clicks the link, they encounter a region access restriction,” SlowMist wrote.

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Elie

DECEMBER 12, 2019

is a landmark European ruling that governs the delisting of personal information from search results. Each delisting decision requires careful consideration of the balance between respecting user privacy and ensuring open access to information via Google Search. This blog post details our. Right to be Forgotten” (RTBF).

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 28, 2021

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, January 28, is Data Privacy Day, the annual, multinational event in which governments, companies, and schools can inform the public about how to protect their privacy online.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 27, 2022

Google will soon be giving European countries a “Reject All” button in the Search and YouTube cookie consent banner. We believe it is possible both to protect people’s privacy online and to give companies and developers tools to build thriving digital businesses.”

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Malwarebytes

MAY 28, 2024

As you may have read many times before on our blog, some spyware companies have a surprisingly low standard of security. Installing monitoring software is not just a huge invasion of privacy, there is a big chance that it will backfire. What goes around comes around, you might say.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 1, 2022

At the end of 2021, Lock and Code invited the folks behind our news-driven cybersecurity and online privacy blog, Malwarebytes Labs, to discuss what upset them most about cybersecurity in the year prior. Today, we’re bringing those same guests back to discuss the other, biggest topic in this space and on this show: Data privacy.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 3, 2023

The safe browsing feature then works on two fronts: the search engine tells you if it suspects a website in its results is infected, while the Chrome web browser alerts you anytime you visit a potentially infected or unsafe site. Remember: no matter where you stand currently, you can always be a little safer.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 1, 2021

A newly discovered piece of Android malware shares the same capabilities found within many modern stalkerware-type apps—it can swipe images and video, rifle through online searches, record phone calls and video, and peer into GPS location data—but the infrastructure behind the malware obscures its developer’s primary motivations.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 21, 2020

Kernel The privacy risks associated with online or browser fingerprinting today are real. This is why you often see ads for hotels in a specific location after performing a search for holiday destinations. While the practice is harmless from the outside, it is actually a series of serious privacy risks that must be mitigated.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Search for your account across multiple breaches [link] — Have I Been Pwned (@haveibeenpwned) December 4, 2013 And then, as they say, things kinda escalated quickly. And now, a 10th birthday blog post about what really sticks out a decade later. "Have I been pwned?" " by @troyhunt is now up and running. Toronto Star.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

After the uproar from users and privacy advocates about Apple’s controversial plans to scan users’ devices for photos and messages containing child abuse and exploitation media, the company has decided to put the brakes on the plan. These two also intervene when a user searches for CSAM material.

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Heimadal Security

APRIL 15, 2021

The search engine giant believes the FLoC technology will be less intrusive compared to the current practice in […]. The post Privacy-Focused Browsers Oppose Google’s FLoC Technology appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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BH Consulting

JANUARY 25, 2022

Every 28 January, governments, parliaments, national data protection bodies and other actors carry out activities to raise awareness about the rights to personal data protection and privacy. On 26 January 2009, the United States House of Representatives declared 28 January as National Data Privacy Day. Privacy (as a right) .

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 5, 2022

Tor has a storied reputation in the world of online privacy. ” But for all the valid discussion about online anonymity, encryption, and privacy, Tor has an entirely different value proposition for people who build and maintain websites, and that is one of security. ” Click “Save Settings.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2020

This has revolutionized security and data privacy and how we outsource computation to untrusted clouds,” states IBM. FHE could be implemented to enact “privacy preserving search” that allows users to search against a cloud service without revealing their queries’ data to the cloud provider. .

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2020

after receiving what looked like a bill for search engine optimization (SEO) services rendered on behalf of their domain names. The missives appear to be an $85 bill for an “annual search engine listing” service. A cached copy of Mark Scott’s blog Internet Madness from 2011 promotes Web Listings Inc.

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Hacker's King

APRIL 29, 2023

> What is Image Reverse Search? > One such tool is FaceCheck, a website that claims to help users verify someone’s identity by uploading their photo and discovering their social media profiles, and appearance in blogs, videos, and news websites. Topics we are covering > What is FaceChecker? >

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 23, 2022

Ever notice when you do a search for something – let’s say you’re evaluating office furniture – and suddenly you’re seeing ads for office furniture everywhere you go online? The post Internet Tracking and How to Safeguard Your Privacy appeared first on Nuspire.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2020

Lo and fellow SecKC members recently created zWarDial , which borrows part of its name from the old phone-based war dialing programs that called random or sequential numbers in a given telephone number prefix to search for computer modems. “This gives me the [Zoom meeting] room information without having to log in.”

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 23, 2023

The fight for data privacy must be won in the middle. And if a few privacy fiascos happen along the way? Every single Data Privacy Day, companies, organizations, and privacy rights advocates make their best case for why everyday people should care about privacy. This is about what privacy gets you.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 6, 2021

In 2019, it announced its vision for a “ Privacy Sandbox ”. The Privacy Sandbox mission is to “Create a thriving web ecosystem that is respectful of users and private by default”. In this way, users aren’t compromising privacy and advertisers can still deliver targeted ads, but will struggle to map out individual identities.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 29, 2020

If the devastating health and economic ramifications weren’t enough, individual privacy is also in the throes of being profoundly and permanently disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. In doing so, their proposed solution has a number of glaring technical and privacy-protection shortcomings, according to several technologists I spoke with.

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 7, 2020

Let me explain: HIBP Has Always Been Open in Spirit I've already written extensively about the architecture of the system across many of the 128 previous blog posts tagged as Have I Been Pwned. The very second blog post on that tag was about how I used Azure Table Storage to make it so fast and so cheap. What About the Data?

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BH Consulting

APRIL 18, 2024

Curated advice, guidance, learning and trends in cybersecurity and privacy, as chosen by our consultants. Data protection and privacy developments Cross-border cooperation between EU data protection regulators looks set to become easier under proposed new rules. They’re also intended to give more certainty to businesses.

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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. This provides a glimpse into your online identity and can include personal information, search engine queries, and shared content.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg infamously declared that privacy “is no longer a social norm” in 2010, he was merely parroting a corporate imperative that Google had long since established. But what if companies chose to respect an individual’s right to privacy, especially when he or she goes online? Privacy as good business.

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