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8 Ways to Protect Yourself against Scams on Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Adam Levin

If you’re planning to skip in-store holiday shopping, or if your state is already in lockdown, it’s important to be on the lookout for the online scams that will undoubtedly show up in people’s email, texts and social media feeds. Credit cards come with consumer protections that limit your liability if your card information is stolen.

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Data Privacy in the United States: A Recap of 2023 Developments

Centraleyes

Arkansas – S 396: Social Media Safety Act Arkansas’s S 396, known as the Social Media Safety Act, mandates age verification for social media use to address the growing social media concerns. It also explores the implications for social media companies regarding responsibility and liability.

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SiteLock Named To The 2016 Online Trust Alliance Honor Roll

SiteLock

Through its comprehensive study, it evaluates companies in three major categories: a company’s consumer protection, data and site security and adherence to responsible privacy practice. Media Contact. The Online Trust and Honor Roll Audit is the only independent online trust benchmark study. Kimberly Waterhouse.

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Is Apple about to embrace third-party app stores?

Malwarebytes

Provides certain services, such as browsers, messengers, and social media, that have 45M EU users per month minimum and 10,000 annual business users. From now on, they must show that they also allow for fair competition on the internet. EUR ($8.2B) or a market capitalization of 75B EUR ($82B).

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Cybersecurity Report: June 29, 2015

SiteLock

The non-profit organization Online Trust Alliance conducted a study that audited 1,000 websites, including websites of 50 leading Internet of Things device makers and other leading retailers, banks, social media, news and government bodies. Almost Half of Leading Websites Fail Security and Privacy Tests.

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CISA, SolarWinds up interest in security scoring

SC Magazine

Sachin Bansal, general counsel at SecurityScorecard, spoke with SC Media about ratings, and how they can be used to strengthen the supply chain, determine cyber insurance premiums and as an investigative tool for an oversight body. These scores are updated every day because the internet changes every day.

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Past, present, and future of the Dark Web

Security Affairs

This misinformation is extremely dangerous for kids, first consumers of videos published on the principal social media platform. An Iceberg has always been used as a visual representation of the Internet world. Misinterpretation, superficiality, some times simple profits, these are the root cause of the confusion. Exactly, how?