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How to Protect Yourself from Rental Scams

Identity IQ

How to Protect Yourself from Rental Scams. Competition grows fiercer by the day in the nation’s hottest housing markets, and that translates to a competitive rental market as well. Here’s how rental scam listings works: Con artists steal a posted rental listing and rework the information to include their contact info.

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AI-generated voices in robocalls are illegal, rules FCC

Malwarebytes

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced that calls made with voices generated with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be considered “artificial” under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). Hang up as soon as you realize that it is an automated robocall. Do not engage with the call at all.

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Is Apple about to embrace third-party app stores?

Malwarebytes

The Digital Markets Act. The Digital Markets Act (DMA) , also referred to as Regulation (EU) 2022/1925, was introduced by the European Commission, the executive arm of the EU, in December 2020 and was recently signed into law, in September 2022. EUR ($8.2B) or a market capitalization of 75B EUR ($82B).

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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.

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Robocall Legal Advocate Leaks Customer Data

Krebs on Security

The Blacklist Alliance provides technologies and services to marketing firms concerned about lawsuits under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), a 1991 law that restricts the making of telemarketing calls through the use of automatic telephone dialing systems and artificial or prerecorded voice messages.

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News alert: Vaultinum rolls out ‘Timestamping’ solution to enhance promotional price transparency

The Last Watchdog

Among other uses, Vaultinum’s Timestamping solution will enable companies to demonstrate their compliance with the EU Omnibus Directive (28/05/2022), promoting price transparency and fair consumer practices. Governments and regulators around the world strive to maintain fair and efficient market conditions.

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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.