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Explained: Privacy washing

Malwarebytes

And if you look at the recent actions Google has announced, you’d be tempted to take his word for it: An initiative to let Chrome hide your IP address. Google makes lots and lots of money by knowing what we are looking for. And to achieve that goal it needs to gather as much information as possible about us.

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One in Five Public-Facing Cloud Storage Buckets Expose Sensitive Data

eSecurity Planet

“Organizations cannot properly protect data they do not know is exposed,” the company added. Companies need to know what publicly exposed sensitive data is in their environment, Laminar said. ” Also read: Cloud Bucket Vulnerability Management. A Pervasive Privacy Problem.

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GUEST ESSAY: A breakout of how Google, Facebook, Instagram enable third-party snooping

The Last Watchdog

This increased demand for apps also raises the need for improved data protection measures, which Google took steps to address with the new data safety section they launched in July 2022. In fact, the data trade industry is worth over $257 billion and growing yearly. In fact, Google Play users downloaded 111.3

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Nation States Will Weaponize Social and Recruit Bad Guys with Benefits in 2022

McAfee

In this blog, we take a deeper dive into the continuingly aggressive role Nation States will play in 2022. But guess what? The threat actors know this, and our appetite toward accepting connections from people we have never met are all part of our relentless pursuit of the next 1,000 followers. By Raj Samani. Who Can Regulate?

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Me on the Equifax Breach

Schneier on Security

I have authored 13 books on these subjects, including Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World (Norton, 2015). My popular newsletter Crypto - Gram and my blog Schneier on Security are read by over 250,000 people. The company's incident response after the breach was similarly damaging.

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Unemployment Insurance Fraud and Identity Theft: Up Close and Personal

Lenny Zeltser

In June 2020, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warned that “imposters are filing claims for unemployment benefits [in the US], using the names and personal information of people who have not filed claims.” ” How do such scams look from the victim’s perspective, and what can you do if you’re affected?

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Key Aspects of Data Access Governance in Compliance and Auditing

Centraleyes

What is Data Access Governance? Tapping into your company’s data is appealing, but caution must be taken to ensure that sensitive information does not get into the wrong hands. It is used to revoke or grant permissions but needs a contextual understanding of the data stored in each cloud resource.