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LifeLock Bug Exposed Millions of Customer Email Addresses

Krebs on Security

Identity theft protection firm LifeLock — a company that’s built a name for itself based on the promise of helping consumers protect their identities online — may have actually exposed customers to additional attacks from ID thieves and phishers. million customer accounts.

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Exclusive: The largest mobile malware marketplace identified by Resecurity in the Dark Web

Security Affairs

As the years pass, the malware market for mobile banking has become extremely mature, and most Dark Web actors stopped selling it, they’ve switched over to potentially renting, or to privately using it. Every year, the number of mobile-oriented malware increases exponentially. ” – he added.

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SiteLock’s Top Five Cybersecurity Predictions For 2020

SiteLock

The CCPA aims to enhance privacy rights and consumer protection for California residents or any other organization that does business with California. Given the focus on protecting consumer privacy, the CCPA regulations will inevitably set the bar for an increase in cybersecurity policies.

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Me on the Equifax Breach

Schneier on Security

Hearing on "Securing Consumers' Credit Data in the Age of Digital Commerce". Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection. And even those only protect consumers from some of the harms, and only those suffered after Equifax admitted to the breach. Worse, the financial markets reward bad security.

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Past, present, and future of the Dark Web

Security Affairs

Operators behind the principal black markets made a lot of money, let’s think of managers of the Wall Street Market and Valhalla recently seized by feds. There are many blogs that for the greater part deal with issues of cybersecurity and the rights of the digital population in terms of consumer protection and privacy.

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MY TAKE: Why Satya Nadella is wise to align with privacy advocates on regulating facial recognition

The Last Watchdog

and RealNetworks are by no means alone pushing facial ID systems into the commercial market. They hope to supply the building blocks for a nationwide biometrics gathering system — one that can be widely shared to support broad consumer-focused initiatives, much as the tech giants shared results of their theoretical studies.