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It’s a Holiday Security Breach Blowout

SiteLock

Thankfully, we understand how the breaches may have occurred and how to protect ourselves, which I will share with you now. For end users and consumers, protection against data breaches is difficult as we all now trust others to be good stewards of our personal details. A good strategy to reduce the risk of a breach three-fold.

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Camera tricks: Privacy concerns raised after massive surveillance cam breach

SC Magazine

Making matters worse, the cameras employ facial recognition technology, which leads to questions as to whether an attacker could actually identify individuals caught on camera and then pursue them as targets for social engineering schemes or something even more nefarious. When surveillance leads to spying.