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Indictment, Lawsuits Revive Trump-Alfa Bank Story

Krebs on Security

In October 2016, media outlets reported that data collected by some of the world’s most renowned cybersecurity experts had identified frequent and unexplained communications between an email server used by the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank , one of Russia’s largest financial institutions. trump-email.com).

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 223 – News of the week

Security Affairs

NCSC report warns of DNS Hijacking Attacks. Media File Jacking allows manipulating media files users receive via Android WhatsApp and Telegram. Mysterious hackers steal data of over 70% of Bulgarians. Israel surveillance firm NSO group can mine data from major social media. Kindle Edition. Paper Copy.

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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

Krebs on Security

Residential proxy services are often marketed to people seeking the ability to evade country-specific blocking by the major movie and media streaming providers. “Using the internal router, it would be possible to poison the DNS cache of the LAN router of the infected node, enabling further attacks.”

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Quad9 to move offices to Switzerland, invites other privacy-focused firms to follow

SC Magazine

.” Quad9 is a non-profit offering a free recursive DNS service that does not log user data. and Google Public DNS. The company received a finding of law from the Swiss government that it will not be treated as a telecommunications provider, exempting it from laws that would mandate data collection.

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Thomson Reuters collected and leaked at least 3TB of sensitive data

Security Affairs

The multinational media conglomerate Thomson Reuters left a database with sensitive customer and corporate data exposed online. Thomson Reuters, a multinational media conglomerate, left an open database with sensitive customer and corporate data, including third-party server passwords in plaintext format.

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Privacy predictions for 2021

SecureList

Add in more smart health devices, such as smart body scales, glucose level monitors, blood pressure monitors and even toothbrushes and you have huge amounts of data that is invaluable for marketers and insurers. Public awareness of the perils of unfettered data collection is growing, and the free market is taking notice.

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SW Labs | Review: Bishop Fox CAST

SC Magazine

This approach extends far beyond assets with an IP address, however, including everything from certificates to S3 buckets to DNS misconfigurations. Here, however, the data isn’t nearly as detailed as it is in ASM vendors that focus more on comprehensive data collection than risk analysis and prioritization.